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This paper reviews the EU's attempts to prevent and combat the proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and their ammunition. In doing so, it also touts the 2005 EU strategy to combat the illicit accumulation and trafficking of SALW, which has made the EU's fight against this problem much more coherent than it would have been otherwise. Unfortunately, and at the same time, there is little evidence to confirm that the EU and its member states have made concerted and coordinated efforts to strengthen their own SALW export control policies.