Federal Act
on War Materiel
(War Mat Act, WMA)

¹ It is pro­hib­ited:

a.

to de­vel­op, pro­duce, broker, ac­quire, trans­fer to any­one, im­port, ex­port, carry in trans­it, or store cluster mu­ni­tion or to pos­sess the same in any oth­er way;

b.

to in­cite any­one to carry out an act men­tioned in let­ter a above;

c.

to as­sist any­one to carry out an act men­tioned in let­ter a above.

² Para­graph 1 also ap­plies to ex­plos­ive bomb­lets that are spe­cific­ally in­ten­ded to be dis­persed or re­leased by dis­pensers af­fixed to an air­craft.

³ For the de­vel­op­ment of pro­ced­ures for de­tect­ing, clear­ing, or des­troy­ing cluster mu­ni­tion and for train­ing in such pro­ced­ures, the re­ten­tion or trans­fer of a quant­ity of cluster mu­ni­tion is per­mit­ted. The quant­ity of cluster mu­ni­tion re­tained shall not ex­ceed the min­im­um quant­ity ab­so­lutely ne­ces­sary for the above-men­tioned pur­poses.