Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe in the United States

Article IX

1. Other than removal from service in accordance with the provisions of
Article VIII, battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, artillery, combat aircraft
and attack helicopters within the area of application shall be removed from
service only by decommissioning, provided that:

(A) such conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty are
decommissioned and awaiting disposal at no more than eight sites which shall be
notified as declared sites in accordance with the Protocol on Information
Exchange and shall be identified in such notifications as holding areas for
decommissioned conventional armaments and equipment limited by the
Treaty. If sites containing conventional armaments and equipment limited by the
Treaty decommissioned from service also contain any other conventional armaments
and equipment subject to the Treaty, the decommissioned conventional armaments
and equipment limited by the Treaty shall be separately distinguishable; and

(B) the numbers of such decommissioned conventional armaments and equipment
limited by the Treaty do not exceed, in the case of any individual State Party,
one percent of its notified holdings of conventional armaments and equipment
limited by the Treaty, or a total of 250, whichever is greater, of which no more
than 200 shall be battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles and pieces of
artillery, and no more than 50 shall be attack helicopters and combat aircraft.

2. Notification of decommissioning shall include the number and type of
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty decommissioned and
the location of decommissioning and shall be provided to all other States
Parties in accordance with Section IX, paragraph 1, subparagraph (B) of the
Protocol on Information Exchange.

Article X

1. Designated permanent storage sites shall be notified in accordance with
the Protocol on Information Exchange to all other States Parties by the StateParty to which the conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty
contained at designated permanent storage sites belong. The notification shall
include the designation and location, including geographic coordinates, of
designated permanent storage sites and the numbers by type of each category of
its conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty at each such
storage site.

2. Designated permanent storage sites shall contain only facilities
appropriate for the storage and maintenance of armaments and equipment (e.g.,
warehouses, garages, workshops and associated stores as well as other support
accommodation). Designated permanent storage sites shall not contain firing
ranges or training areas associated with conventional armaments and equipment
limited by the Treaty. Designated permanent storage sites shall contain only
armaments and equipment belonging to the conventional armed forces of a State
Party.

3. Each designated permanent storage site shall have a clearly defined
physical boundary that shall consist of a continuous perimeter fence at least
1.5 metres in height. The perimeter fence shall have no more than three gates
providing the sole means of entrance and exit for armaments and equipment.

4. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty located within
designated permanent storage sites shall be counted as conventional armaments
and equipment limited by the Treaty not in active units, including when they are
temporarily removed in accordance with paragraphs 7, 8, 9 and 10 of this
Article. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in storage
other than in designated permanent storage sites shall be counted as
conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in active units.

5. Active units or formations shall not be located within designated
permanent storage sites, except as provided for in paragraph 6 of this Article.

6. Only personnel associated with the security or operation of designated
permanent storage sites, or the maintenance of the armaments and equipment
stored therein, shall be located within the designated permanent storage sites.

7. For the purpose of maintenance, repair or modification of conventional
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty located within designated
permanent storage sites, each State Party shall have the right, without prior
notification, to remove from and retain outside designated permanent storage
sites simultaneously up to 10 percent, rounded up to the nearest even whole
number, of the notified holdings of each category of conventional armaments and
equipment limited by the Treaty in each designated permanent storage site, or 10
items of the conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty in each
category in each designated permanent storage site, whichever is less.

8. Except as provided for in paragraph 7 of this Article, no State
Party shall remove conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty
from designated permanent storage sites unless notification has been provided to
all other States Parties at least 42 days in advance of such removal.
Notification shall be given by the State Party to which the conventional
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty belong. Such notification shall
specify:

(A) the location of the designated permanent storage site from whichconventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty are to be removed and
the numbers by type of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the
Treaty of each category to be removed;

(B) the dates of removal and return of conventional armaments and equipment
limited by the Treaty; and

(C) the intended location and use of conventional armaments and equipment
limited by the Treaty while outside the designated permanent storage site.

9. Except as provided for in paragraph 7 of this Article, the aggregate
numbers of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty removed
from and retained outside designated permanent storage sites by States Parties
belonging to the same group of States Parties shall at no time exceed the
following levels:

(A) 550 battle tanks;

(B) 1,000 armoured combat vehicles; and

(C) 300 pieces of artillery.

10. Conventional armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty removed from
designated permanent storage sites pursuant to paragraphs 8 and 9 of this
Article shall be returned to designated permanent storage sites no later than 42
days after their removal, except for those items of conventional armaments and
equipment limited by the Treaty removed for industrial rebuild. Such items
shall be returned to designated permanent storage sites immediately on
completion of the rebuild.

11. Each State Party shall have the right to replace conventional armaments
and equipment limited by the Treaty located in designated permanent storage
sites. Each State Party shall notify all other States Parties, at the beginning
of replacement, of the number, location, type and disposition of conventional
armaments and equipment limited by the Treaty being replaced.