Tools of Torture and Repression in South America
manufacture and sale of pyrotechnic and riot control
equipment and technology transfer.153
Venezuelan Military Venezuela Small and light arms. Small arms ammunition. Unmanned
Industries – Compañía
aerial vehicles. Alliance with Arsenal Industries 2000 C.A. for
Anónima Venezolana
the production, distribution and sale of protective clothing,
de Industrias Militares
handcuffs, extendable batons and other equipment.154
(CAVIM)
Agreement with Spanish company Falken S.A. for the licensed
production of chemical irritants, including CS grenades.155
Display of FAMAE equipment, including CS grenades and aerosol sprays. Memoria FAMAE 2013, p. 25
Licensed production
Licensed production overseas156 is the process where a company in one country allows a second
company in another country to manufacture its products under licence. The form these agreements
take varies greatly, covering both tangible and intangible transfers. In some agreements, raw materials
and/or parts are exported to the buyer country where they are used to assemble the product, while
in others the product design and the expertise required to manufacture it are licensed out to the buyer
who then manufactures the product from scratch. Several South American state-owned companies
manufacture law enforcement equipment under licensed production agreements.
Illustrative examples of licensed production agreements
Peru: Spanish company Falken S.A. signed a contract with Peruvian state-controlled company
FAME in 2010 for the production of law enforcement equipment and technology transfer.
Falken’s contract with FAME ran from 2010-2015 and reportedly included a non-exhaustive
153
FAME S.A.C, Memoria 2010, p. 23.
‘CAVIM Y ARSENAL INDUSTRIES 2000 C.A Suscriben Alianza Para La Fabricación de Chalecos Antibalas Venezuela Defensa’, venezueladefensa.com, 21 June 2013
<http://www.venezueladefensa.com/2013/06/cavim-y-arsenal-industries-2000-ca.html> [accessed 1 June
2016].
155
CAVIM, ‘FALKEN S.A’ <http://www.cavim.com.ve/index.php/alianzas/falken> [accessed 1 June 2016].
156
Licensed production agreements are also often referred to as licensing manufacturing agreements, coproduction agreements and technology transfer agreements, although there are technical differences
between each of these.
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