4 DE JULHO DE 1992

964-(31)

tain in working order two items of each existing type of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty for the purpose of static display. Such conventional armaments and equipment shall be displayed at museums or other similar sites.

4 — Conventional armaments and equipment placed on static display or in museums prior to the signature of the Treaty shall not be subject to any numerical limitations set forth in the Treaty, including the numerical limitations set forth in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this section.

5 — Such items to be reduced by means of static display shall undergo the following procedures at reduction sites:

A) All items to be displayed that are powered by self-contained engines shall have their fuel tanks rendered incapable of holding fuel and:

1) Have their engjne(s) and transmission removed and their mounts damaged so that these pieces cannot be refitted; or

2) Have their engine compartment filled with concrete or a polymer resin;

B) All items to be displayed equipped with 75 millimetres or larger guns with permanently fixed elevation and traversing mechanisms shall have their elevation and traversing mechanisms welded so that the tube can be neither traversed nor elevated. In addition, those items to be displayed which use pinion and rack or pinion and ring mechanisms for traversing or elevating shall have three consecutive gear teeth cut off from the rack or ring on each side of the pinion of the gun tube;

Q All items to be displayed which are equipped with weapon systems that do not meet the criteria set forth in subparagraph B) of this paragraph shall have their barrel and receiver group filled with either concrete or a polymer resin, beginning at the face of the bolt/breech and ending within 100 millimetres of the muzzle.

SECTION XI

Procedure for reduction by use as ground targets

1 — Each State Party shall have the right to reduce by use as ground targets a certain number of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and self-propelled pieces of artillery.

2 — No State Party shall reduce by use as ground targets numbers of battle tanks or armoured combat vehicles greater than 2.5% of its maximum level for holdings in each of those two categories as notified at the signature of the Treaty pursuant to article vn of the Treaty. In addition, no State Party shall have the right to reduce by use as ground targets more than 50 self-propelled pieces of artillery.

3 — Conventional armaments and equipment in use as ground targets prior to the signature of the Treaty shall not be subject to any numerical limitaitons set forth in articles iv, v or vi of the Treaty, or to the numerical limitations set forth in paragraph 2 of this section.

4 — Such items to be reduced by use as ground targets shall undergo the following procedures at reduction sites:

A) For battle tanks and self-propelled pieces of artillery:

1) For the breech system, either:

a) Welding the breech block to the breech ring in at least two places; or

b) Cutting of at least one side of the breech ring along the long axis of the cavity that receives the breech block;

2) Severing of either of the trunnions and its trunnion mount in the turret; and

3) Severing of sections from both sides of the hull which include the final drive apertures, by vertical and horizontal cuts in the side plates and diagonal cuts in the deck or belly plates and front or rear plates, such that the final drive apertures are contained in the severed portions; and

B) For armoured combat vehicles:

1) For the gun breech system:

a) Welding the breech block to the breech ring in at least two places;

b) Cutting of at least one side of the breech ring along the axis of the cavity that receives the breech block; or

c) Severing of the breech casing into two approximately equal parts;

2) Severing of either of the gun trunnions and its trunnion mount in the turret;

3) For tracked armoured combat vehicles, severing of sections from both sides of the hull which include the final drive apertures, by vertical and horizontal cuts in the side plates and diagonal cuts in the deck or belly plates and front or rear plates, so that the final drive apertures are contained in the severed portions; and

4) For wheeled armoured combat vehicles, severing of sections from both sides of the hull which include the front whell final gearbox mounting areas by vertical, horizontal and irregular cuts in the side, front, deck and belly plates so that the front wheel final gear box mounting areas are included in the severed portions at a distance of no less than 100 millimetres from the cuts.

SECTION XII

Procedure for reduction by use for ground instructional purposes

1 — Each State Party shall have the right to reduce by use for ground instructional purposes a certain number of combat aircraft and attack helicopters.