Vienna Document

The OSCE’s approach is that military security and stability can be achieved through greater military transparency, openness and exchange of military information. The Vienna Document, first adopted in 1990 and last updated in 2011, brings together a set of confidence- and security-building measures that became the backbone of the European security architecture.

The information exchanges between the OSCE participating States cover a range of issues, such as the planning, budgeting, deployment and activities of their armed forces, conventional arms transfer and export as well as related technologies, small arms and light weapons and stockpiles of conventional ammunition, and national practices on democratic control through armed forces, among other topics. The OSCE participating States share additional information by providing briefings at the meetings of the Forum for Security Co-operation.

Exchange of military information made available to the public:

Information Exchange on Conventional Arms Transfer

Answers to the Questionnaire on Anti-Personnel Mines and Explosive Remnants of War

Answers to the Questionnaire on Participating States’ Policy and/or National Practices and Procedures for the Export of Conventional Arms and Related Technology

Answers to the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security Questionnaire

Answers to the OSCE Small Arms and Light Weapons Questionnaire