Grasping the nettle: Ending Europe’s Trade in Execution and Torture Technology 31 Amnesty International and Omega Recommendation: Following a round of consultation with the Commission, EU Member States and relevant human rights organisations, we recommend that two complementary procedures be introduced: Firstly, urgency procedures allowing the Commission to quickly amend the Regulation Annexes and thereby control or prohibit the transfer of certain goods, as detailed in the Commission Proposal of January 2014. Secondly a targeted end-use control mechanism which would require Member States to: (a) suspend or halt a specific transfer of relevant items that are covered under the scope of the Regulation but which are not currently listed in the Regulation Annexes, that clearly have no practical use other than for the purposes of capital punishment, torture and other ill-treatment or where there is evidence that the specific transfer of items would be used to carry out the death penalty, torture and other ill-treatment; (b) report such transfer suspensions to the Commission and for the Commission (in consultation with Member States) to determine whether such goods should be added to the relevant Regulation Annex and their trade controlled or prohibited. Index: EUR 01/1632/2015 Amnesty International May 2015