Military and aviation regulations of the State Treaty of Vienna 1955

Part II ("Military and Aviation Regulations") of the State Treaty of Vienna 1955 mainly contains:

Article 13. Prohibition of special weapons

• "1. Austria should neither own nor manufacture nor use for experiments
  • a) any nuclear weapon ,
  • b) any other heavy weapon which can now or in the future be made available as a means of mass destruction and has been designated as such by the competent organ of the United Nations,
  • c) any kind of self-propelled or guided projectiles, torpedoes and apparatus used for their launch and control,
  • d) sea ​​mines ,
  • e) torpedoes that can be manned,
  • f) submarines or other underwater vehicles,
  • g) motor torpedo boats ,
  • h) specialized types of attack vehicles,
  • i) guns with a range of more than 30 km,
  • j) asphyxiating, corrosive or poisonous substances or biological substances in larger quantities or other types than those required for legitimate civil purposes, or any apparatus suitable for producing, hurling or distributing such substances or substances for warlike purposes .
• 2. The Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to add to this article prohibitions on any weapons that may be developed as a result of scientific progress. "

Note: by declaration (in 1990) by the Republic of Austria vis-à-vis the other signatory powers , Article 13, item 1, letters c) to j) and item 2 is declared obsolete; recognized under international law as a result of the inaction of the signatory powers; the Allies have not made use of their right under item 2.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinisch: Austrian Handbook of International Law - Part II . Ed .: Reinisch. tape 2 . Manz, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-214-14917-8 , pp. 793 f .

Web links

• Text of the State Treaty of Vienna (1955)