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Effective regulation and control of legal transfers of SALW are essential components of efforts to prevent, reduce and combat illicit SALW trafficking in all its aspects. This document is a revised version of one of the sections of the SALW Consultative Group Process’ ‘Food for Thought’ Paper (July 2005), which outlined ideas that are of key importance to the implementation and further development of the UN Programme of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW).