Cluster Munitions Sale screen criteria

How to read this definition

Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.

Can establish this activity

Included when supported

Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.

6 criteria

01Criterion
Direct Sale or Offer for Sale of Cluster Munitions
Defined as: Entities that sell, offer for sale, quote, price, or contract to sell operational cluster munitions, explosive submunitions, explosive bomblets, or cluster-specific components to a buyer.
02Criterion
Brokers or Dealers With a Cluster Munition Sales Role
Defined as: Licensed arms brokers, dealers, or intermediaries that negotiate, arrange, or process a commercial sale of a cluster-munition product. Promotion, transfer, or export without a sales role is insufficient.
03Criterion
Documented Cluster Munition Sales Contracts
Defined as: Entities identified as seller, supplier, broker, or contracting party in a product-specific purchase agreement, sales contract, purchase order, or comparable transaction document for cluster munitions.
04Criterion
State-Owned or Government Sellers With Verified Activity
Defined as: State-owned enterprises, government export agencies, military sales bodies, or other non-investable entities with entity-specific evidence of an actual offer, contract, or sale of cluster munitions. Entity status or sales authority alone is insufficient.
05Criterion
Joint, Offset, or Co-Sale Arrangements With an Actual Sales Role
Defined as: Entities with a documented pricing, negotiation, contracting, brokerage, or seller role in an offset, joint venture, co-sale, or larger weapons package that includes cluster munitions.
06Criterion
Corroborated Cluster Munition Sale Evidence
Defined as: Entities for which a government record, contract, sanctions or enforcement record, treaty monitor, or authoritative investigation provides an exact legal-entity, product, sale or offer-for-sale activity, and time attribution, corroborated by a primary source or another independent authoritative source. List membership alone is insufficient.

Does not establish this activity on its own

Excluded on this basis alone

These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.

6 criteria

01Criterion
Producers Not Involved in Sales
Defined as: Manufacturers who do not market or sell their products directly, and do not manage transactional processes for their munitions.
02Criterion
Logistics or Transport Providers
Defined as: Companies that ship or handle munitions under contract but are not involved in pricing, negotiation, or financial transactions.
03Criterion
Non-Operational or Inert Sales
Defined as: Dealers or collectors trading only in deactivated, inert, or demilitarized cluster munitions for historical or display purposes.
04Criterion
Entities Selling Non-Cluster Arms Only
Defined as: Companies that sell conventional arms with no evidence of involvement in cluster munition transactions.
05Criterion
Media or Marketing Firms Without Sales Role
Defined as: Entities that create promotional materials for cluster munitions but do not process or conduct actual sales.
06Criterion
Historical-Only Cluster Munition Sale
Defined as: Entities with verified past sale, offer for sale, or brokerage of cluster munitions, where reliable evidence establishes that the qualifying activity has fully ceased, been divested, transferred, dismantled, terminated, or otherwise ended and no current qualifying involvement remains. Historical-only activity does not qualify as current involvement. Preserve the historical record separately with the activity period, effective cessation or transfer date, relevant entity, product, programme, facility, or contract, and supporting evidence. Absence of recent evidence alone is not sufficient to establish cessation.