    facilitate facilitate unlawful killings, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, or other human rights violations or abuses. Establish lists of prohibited and controlled less lethal weapons and equipment which must be regularly reviewed and updated to take account of new data and technological developments. Establish a comprehensive national trade control system to vet prospective transfers of controlled equipment. Decisions to grant export authorisations for controlled law enforcement equipment should be made on a case-by-case basis by the competent authority in the State where the applicant is based. If there is a substantial risk that the less lethal weapons and equipment would be used for prohibited purposes by the recipient law-enforcement authority, or be diverted to another unauthorised end-user, States should not authorise the transfer. To evaluate licence applications, the authority should take into account relevant information derived from UN and regional human rights monitors and respected NGOs, relating to the activities of the proposed law enforcement end users, in particular their compliance with human rights law and standards and their reported use, misuse and regulation of law enforcement equipment. States must regularly review export licences; in the event of the emergence of any substantial risk of misuse, States must immediately suspend licences pending further review. Inform their legislature and share information with other States about measures taken to regulate the trade in less lethal weapons and law enforcement equipment. They should publish an annual report in a manner containing meaningful information on the volume, value, nature of such less lethal weapons and equipment, and destination of their trade in this area, so as to enable appropriate oversight by elected representatives and independent bodies. States should notify their legislature of all decisions approving or rejecting a request for an export authorisation and of any decisions rescinding an export authorisation that has already been granted, along with the reasons for each decision. Establishing effective national measures to regulate the trade in less lethal weapons and other law enforcement equipment, though vital, will not be sufficient to ensure that law enforcement agencies engaged in human rights violations including torture and other ill-treatment do not continue to receive less lethal weapons and law enforcement equipment from unscrupulous exporters in other countries. To combat such activities, inter-governmental organizations should establish regional, and eventually international, standards and instruments regulating trade in this area. All States should join the Alliance for Torture Free Trade, endorse its Political Declaration and work to promote a UN process to establish international controls in this area.