Overview

Article 5 permits States Parties to request an extension of their deadlines for destroying anti-personnel mines found in mined areas and indicates what a requests should minimally contain. In September 2006, the States Parties agreed to a process for the preparation, submission and analysis of requests.

• What Article 5 says
  
  
• The Article 5 extensions process
  
  
• Orientation to the Article 5 extensions process PDF 126KB
  
  
• Timelines for the Article 5 extension process PDF 33KB
  
  
• Meetings of States Parties mandated to analyse extension requests submitted under Article 5 of the Convention