Cluster Munitions Transportation 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
Knowing Transportation of Cluster Munitions
Defined as: Entities that knowingly carry, move, handle, or store in transit operational cluster munitions, explosive submunitions, explosive bomblets, or dedicated components under a product-specific transport role.
02Criterion
Controlled Cluster Munition Logistics
Defined as: Entities providing routing, secure handling, trans-shipment, border movement, or other controlled logistics specifically for cluster munitions, with knowledge of the cargo and operational responsibility for the movement.
03Criterion
Corroborated Cluster Munition Transportation Evidence
Defined as: Entities for which contracts, manifests, shipping records, government documents, sanctions or enforcement records, or authoritative investigations provide an exact legal-entity, product, transportation role, and time attribution. General reporting or list membership without shipment attribution is insufficient.
04Criterion
Military Cargo Operators With Verified Cluster-Munition Cargo
Defined as: Air, sea, rail, or land cargo operators with entity-specific evidence that they knowingly transported cluster munitions or explosive submunitions. Military contracts or cargo capability alone are insufficient.
05Criterion
Transportation of Delivery Systems With an Integrated Cluster Payload
Defined as: Entities that knowingly transport a rocket, missile, bomb, projectile, or other delivery system as cargo containing a verified operational cluster-munition payload. Movement of a generic launcher or platform is insufficient.
06Criterion
Subcontracted Carriers With Knowing Cluster-Munition Responsibility
Defined as: Third-party carriers subcontracted by a manufacturer, government, or transfer agent to transport identified cluster munitions, where knowledge of the cargo and responsibility for the movement are established.

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.

7 criteria

01Criterion
General Freight and Logistics Companies (Unverified Cargo)
Defined as: Commercial shippers, trucking firms, or airlines with no evidence of knowingly transporting cluster munitions.
02Criterion
Civilian Cargo Operators Without Military Contracts
Defined as: Logistics companies that operate exclusively in non-military sectors (e.g., consumer goods, medical supply).
03Criterion
Transport of Non-Cluster Munitions
Defined as: Companies that move conventional weapons only (e.g., rifles, grenades, standard artillery shells), without cluster munition involvement.
04Criterion
Deactivated or Inert Munitions Only
Defined as: Transporters involved in moving museum pieces, replicas, or decommissioned cluster munitions for educational or historical purposes.
05Criterion
Manufacturers and End-Users Not Involved in Transport
Defined as: Companies that produce or purchase cluster munitions but rely on third parties for transportation, without managing logistics themselves.
06Criterion
Courier and Postal Services
Defined as: Standard parcel delivery or postal firms with no capacity or legal authority to move military-grade munitions.
07Criterion
Historical-Only Cluster Munition Transportation
Defined as: Entities with verified past knowing transportation, handling, storage in transit, or controlled logistics for operational 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.