children and pregnant women; and that such weapons should not form part of the equipment of custodial staff in prisons or any other place of deprivation of liberty.”118 Lithuania In response to concerns raised by the CPT following their 2012 mission to Lithuania119, the Lithuanian Government detailed the conviction of two police officers (T.A. and V.Ž.) for the ill-treatment of a detainee (S.S.) using a “Taser”: “On 8 March 2012, at approximately 6:30 a.m. - 7:00a.m., when the detainee S.S., who had been placed in the arrest house, started shouting, [T.A. and V.Ž.], who were acting jointly, took him to another cell and having knocked him down, while his hands were handcuffed on the back and his face looking the ground, beat him with their legs. Since S.S. continued shouting, they returned back to the cell after approximately 20 minutes and having knocked S.S. down on his stomach, delivered multiple blows to him; after that V.Ž. used an electrical impulse device “Taser” against S.S., who was lying on the ground, and caused to the victim non-severe health impairment the duration whereof lasted longer than 10 days…[T.A. and V.Ž. were deemed to have violated]…Article 21 of the Constitution, which prohibits subjecting anyone to torture, injury, degrading and inhuman treatment or punishment.”120 4.2. Manufacture, promotion and/or transfer of projectile electric shock weapons All EU Member States, under EC Regulation 1236/2005, are required to control the export of “portable electric shock devices, including but not limited to… electric shock dart guns”.121 All EU Member States are required to deny any export authorisations where such goods “might be used for torture or other [ill-treatment]”122To date there has been no publicly available comprehensive official CoE-wide survey identifying which non-EU CoE member States control the import and export of these devices for law enforcement purposes, at the national level. At least four companies (all based in the Russian Federation) – JSC RTECHNO/GardSystems123, March Group124, Oberon-Alpha125, and Thunder126 – currently manufacture and/or promote electric shock projectile weapons for use by law enforcement officials. 118 UN Committee against Torture, Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Finland, 20 January 2017, UN Doc. CAT/C/FIN/CO/7, paragraph 27. 119 CPT, Report to the Lithuanian Government on the visit to Lithuania carried out by the CPT from 27 November to 4 December 2012, 4 June 2014. 120 CPT, Response of the Lithuanian Government to the report of the CPT on its visit to Lithuania from 27 November to 4 December 2012, CPT/Inf (2014) 19, 4 June 2014, p.4. 121 EU, Council Regulation (EC) No 1236/2005, Annex III, Article 2.1. 122 EU, Council Regulation (EC) No 1236/2005, Article 6. 123 JSC RTECH-NO/GardSystems, Gard Multishot contact/remote electroshock device with a changeable clip for 5 cartridges, http://gardsystems.ru/english/gard/ (accessed 16 November 2017). 124 March Group, Electroshock device AIR-107 «Scorpion-A» (350) SK, http://russianshockers.com/products/nl/electroshock-device-scorpion-350-sk.html (accessed 16 November 2017). 125 Oberon-Alpha, Phantom 26W – Remote contact electroshock device http://npp-oberon.ru/eng/electroshokweapon/phantomk111/purpose (accessed 16 November 2017). 126 Thunder, Shock Storm, https://thunder-shok.ru/catalog/20_shtorm.html (accessed 16 November 2017). 29