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Convention on Cluster Munitions
On 30 May 2008, 107 States adopted the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) at a diplomatic conference held in Dublin, Ireland. The CCM opened for signature on 3 December 2008 at a treaty signing ceremony in Oslo, Norway. During the ceremony, 94 States signed the CCM and four States deposited their instruments of ratification. A number of governments that did not sign the CCM in Oslo indicated that they were considering the implications of the treaty's obligations and were likely to sign in the near future.
Definition of a cluster munition: A cluster munition is a conventional munition that is designed to disperse or release explosive submunitions, each weighing less than 20 kg.
Some munitions containing submunitions are not considered cluster munitions for the purposes of the treaty. These include munitions designed to disperse flares or smoke. Also excluded are munitions that contain fewer than 10 explosive submunitions when each of these submunitions is (a) designed to locate and engage a “single target object” (or “point target”) and (b) equipped with an electronic self-destruction and self-deactivating feature. Very few submunitions with these features are stockpiled today.
Source: ICRC.org
