Brussels, 03/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The second annual report on the application of the EU's Code of Conduct for Arms Exports (adopted in June 1998) notes (for translation see OJ 379) that the Code of Conduct's second year of operation brought further progress, particularly by a sizeable increase in the number of arms export refusals notified by Member States, which (see I. Balance sheet) "confirms the will" of the Member States to "put a new transparency into practice" and take more...