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Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977.
Part III : Methods and means of warfare -- Combatant and prisoner-of-war status #Section I -- Methods and means of warfare
Article 36Database 'IHL - Treaties & Comments', View 'COMART' -- New weapons

    In the study, development, acquisition or adoption of a new weapon, means or method of warfare, a High Contracting Party is under an obligation to determine whether its employment would, in some or all circumstances, be prohibited by this Protocol or by any other rule of international law applicable to the High Contracting Party.

 
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