1. Pursuant to Section I paragraph 5 of the Protocol on Procedures Governing the Reduction of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of 19 November 1990, hereafter referred to as the Protocol on Reduction, the Joint Consultative­Group decided on 29 June 1993 that the additional procedure for reduction of armored combat vehicles by destruction, as Specified in paragraphs 2 to 6 of this decision, shall be deemed sufficient to carry out the reduction of conventional armaments and equipment limited by the treaty.

   Procedure for destruction by deformation and severing:

   1. the armored combat vehicle, including the hull, turret and integral main armament, if any shall be placed in a large capacity cutting machine, and

   2. it shall be deformed and severed so that none of its parts measure more than 500 millimeters in width, 500 millimeters in height, and 1000 millimeters in length.

2. A State Party intending to implement the additional procedure specified in Joint Consultative Group 1 of this decision shall identify, in the "Remarks" section of its calendar reporting period notification provided pursuant to Section X, paragraph 5 of the Protocol on Reduction, the Specific during which this additional procedure will be used. In the event that a State Party calendar reporting period notification included other procedures as well as this additional procedure, this additional procedure shall be used at the beginning and/or at the end of the calendar reporting period.

3. The inspection team shall have the right to observe implementation of the additional procedure Specified in paragraph 1 of this decision on a continuous basis whenever this additional procedure is used.

4. The States Parties, in approving the additional procedure Specified in Joint Consultative Group 1 of this decision, waive their right set forth in Section X, paragraph 7 of the Protocol on Reduction, to record, subsequent to the reduction, factory serial numbers from the armored combat vehicles which have been reduced by this additional procedure.

5. Notwithstanding the decision of the Joint Consultative Group on 18 December 1991, on " Distribution of costs of inspections between or among States Parties, worked out in compliance with article XVI, paragraph 2 (F) of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe of 19 November 1990", an inspected party which uses the additional procedure Specified in Joint Consultative Group 1 of this decision shall receive no payment for costs incurred for inspection of such a reduction. Specifically, days during which this additional procedure is used shall not be included in calculating the number of inspector days during a reduction phase in which inspection teams were present at reduction sites on the territory of the inspected party conducting inspections pursuant to Section X paragraphs 1 to 10 of the Protocol on Reduction.

6. This decision does not prejudice any party's right to apply the reduction procedures as set forth in the Protocol on Reduction or to apply the additional procedures for reduction set forth in the decision of the Joint Consultative Group of 11 May 1993. This decision also does not prejudice the rights of any States Parties with respect to inspection of reduction by any procedure other than that Specified in paragraph 1 of this decision.

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