International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation

The HCOC is the result of international efforts to regulate access to ballistic missiles which can potentially deliver weapons of mass destruction.

As agreed by the conference in The Hague, Austria serves as the Immediate Central Contact (Executive Secretariat) and therefore coordinates the information exchange of the HCOC.

The 16th Regular Meeting of Subscribing States of the HCOC took place from 6–7 June 2017 under the chairmanship of Ambassador Marek Szczygieł from Poland.

[1][2] While the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) has a similar mission, it is an export group with only 35 members.

Since the signing and entering into force of the HCOC Code in November 2002 in The Hague, (Netherlands) the number of signatories has increased from 96 to 138 (136 UN members, the Cook Islands and the Holy See).