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France
Practice Relating to Rule 80. Booby-Traps
France’s LOAC Summary Note (1992) prohibits the use of booby-traps which are associated with: wounded and dead persons; protective emblems, signs or signals; toys or other objects designed for children; food or drink; objects clearly of a religious nature; works of art; and animals or their carcasses.
France, Fiche de Synthèse sur les Règles Applicables dans les Conflits Armés, Note No. 432/DEF/EMA/OL.2/NP, Général de Corps d’Armée Voinot (pour l’Amiral Lanxade, Chef d’Etat-major des Armées), 1992, § 4.6.
France’s LOAC Teaching Note (2000) provides: “The use of booby-traps is permitted only on condition that they are laid outside areas where civilians are concentrated and that they are directed against military targets.”
France, Fiche didactique relative au droit des conflits armés, Directive of the Ministry of Defence, 4 January 2000, annexed to the Directive No. 147 of the Ministry of Defence of 4 January 2000, p. 6.
France’s LOAC Manual (2001) quotes Articles 2(2) and 6 of the 1980 Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and specifies: “The use of booby-traps is permitted only on condition that they are laid outside areas where civilians are concentrated and that they are directed against military targets.”
France, Manuel de droit des conflits armés, Ministère de la Défense, Direction des Affaires Juridiques, Sous-Direction du droit international humanitaire et du droit européen, Bureau du droit des conflits armés, 2001, pp. 96 and 55.
Upon ratification of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, France stated:
With reference to the scope of application defined in article 1 of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, … it will apply the provisions of the Convention and its three Protocols [I, II and III] to all armed conflicts referred to in articles 2 and 3 common to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.
France, Reservations made upon ratification of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 4 March 1988.
Upon acceptance of the 1996 Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, France stated: “[T]he provisions of the amended Protocol which by their contents or nature may be applied also in peacetime, shall be observed at all times.”
France, Declarations made upon acceptance of Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 23 July 1998.
