Launch of the ATT Monitor 2025 Report
Read the ATT Monitor 2025 Report at this link: https://attmonitor.org/en/the-2025-report.
On 25 August 2025, the ATT Monitor launched its ATT Monitor Annual Report in a side event on the margins of the Eleventh Conference of States Parties (CSP11) to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
The event was chaired by Counsellor Andrea Quezada, Coordinator of Disarmament and Humanitarian Affairs at the Mission of Chile and Chair of the ATT Working Group on Transparency and Reporting (WGTR).
Ms. Henriette van Gulik, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Conference on Disarmament, provided opening remarks. She commended the ATT Monitor for being a consistent, innovative, and effective monitoring project that identifies and examines key challenges facing the ATT community, maintaining its data-driven focus on national reporting. She also underlined how the work of the ATT Monitor is invaluable in drawing attention to transparency and reporting among States Parties, in emphasizing its importance and necessity, and in creating awareness that without transparency, the Treaty’s raison d’être is undermined.
Dr. Andrea Edoardo Varisco, Project Lead of the ATT Monitor, provided an overview of the ATT Monitor 2025 Annual Report and discussed the status of universalization and compliance of the ATT. Three States, Gambia, Malawi and Colombia, became ATT States Parties between 2024 and 2025, bringing the total number of States Parties to 116. This was the highest number of new States Parties in a year, after three years during which membership of the ATT stagnated.
Dr. Varisco then presented the main findings from the ATT Monitor’s analysis of the 2023 annual reports. He noted that 69 States Parties submitted a 2023 annual report by 1 February 2025. He highlighted the increase in on-time reporting (44 per cent), and decrease in the number of confidential reports, with 16 States Parties (23 per cent of the submitted reports) submitting a confidential annual report for 2023, which is the lowest number and percentage of confidential reports in the last five years. At the same time, Dr. Varisco underlined how the proportion of meaningfully transparent reports fell to 24 per cent. States Parties appear to face some challenges in providing information disaggregated by importer/exporter and in indicating whether transfer data concerns authorizations or actual transfers (or both). The 2025 ATT Monitor Annual Report commended two States Parties, Canada and Peru, as transparency champions in 2023.
Ms. Giovanna Maletta, Senior Researcher in the Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), shared her insights on the report’s thematic chapter, which focused on parts and components under the ATT. She analysed how States Parties have implemented Article 4 of the ATT, explaining how available ATT initial reports indicate that most States Parties that have adopted a national control list have included part and components in its coverage. She noted that States have either created new measures, or utilized existing ones, to enable simplified export licensing procedures for transfers of parts and components associated with collaborative defence production efforts. Ms. Maletta also presented some case studies on integration and re-export of parts and components and the use of civilian parts and components in military equipment. She concluded her presentation by sharing some policy recommendations to improve interpretation, implementation and cooperation on this topic under the ATT.
Ms. Rachel Stohl, Senior Vice-President of the Stimson Center, provided an update on the status of initial and annual reports. She highlighted that two States Parties, the Bahamas and Andorra, have submitted overdue initial reports. She also provided an initial overview of the 2024 annual reports, noting that 50 States Parties had submitted their annual report on-time, thereby retaining the same on-time compliance rate of 44 per cent of 2023. At the same time, she highlighted an increase in the percentage of confidential on-time annual reports.
Ambassador Carlos Mario Foradori, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Argentine Republic to the international organizations in Geneva and President of CSP11, provided some concluding remarks. He praised the work of the ATT Monitor and highlighted the important role of civil society organizations in supporting universalisation and compliance with transparency obligations of the ATT.
The ATT Monitor was launched as an independent project of Control Arms in 2015. For this reason, the launch event concluded with some celebratory remarks for the tenth year anniversary of the ATT Monitor. Dr. Andrea Edoardo Varisco thanked all donors, colleagues, and contributors who worked on the project and were instrumental in the project’s success. Year after year, the ATT Monitor has become a trusted source of information on the implementation of, and compliance with, the ATT, strengthening Treaty implementation efforts and improving the transparency of the conventional arms trade. The remarks concluded with a video to celebrate the ATT Monitor 10th anniversary.
Special thanks to the Government of Canada and the Kingdom of the Netherlands for supporting the production and dissemination of the ATT Monitor 2025 Report.
