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The Group on Safety and Suitability for Service for Munitions and Explosives. AC/310 INTRODUCTION The "Safety and Suitability for Service of Munitions and Explosives" is of fundamental importance to those involved with Munitions and Military Explosives. Each nation has a responsibility to ensure that the equipment used by their armed forces is intrinsically safe to use and that it will remain so under normal operational and storage conditions. On behalf of NATO, AC/310 is establishing a common baseline for safety and suitability for service to ensure that allied nations have confidence in the safety of the equipment used within the alliance. Subject to operational compatibility, the efficiency and effectiveness of NATO forces will be enhanced by the ability to use munitions from a common source with confidence that it will be safe. HISTORY AND MISSION OF AC/310 The group was formed in 1979 to agree a philosophy and apply a methodology for the assessment of the Safety and Suitability for Service of Munitions and Explosives. It became a Partnership Group in 1997. The designated aim of the Group is to establish agreed international terminology, design principles, criteria and procedures, as well as consideration of the service operational conditions by which assessments of safety and suitability for service of munitions are made. The term Munition encompasses missile, gun and mortar projectiles launched from land, sea or air and their associated fuzing systems. The group also considers special categories of munitions, such as mines, grenades, flares, gas generators and demolition material. The Group is also closely associated with the work on Insensitive Munitions (IM)/ Munition a Risque Attenues (MURAT); AC/310 ORGANISATION AC/310 PRODUCTS The Group has developed a range of NATO Standardization Agreements (STANAGs) and Allied Publications (APs). Further details of the groups and the publications they sponsor can be obtained in the web pages linked above. Publications with no classification are available on line from this web site. NATO Unclassified document may be obtained by application to National Points of Contact by any organisation or individual who has a valid and justifiable reason to have access to the information. A charge for handling and postage and packing may be made. Documents must not be passed on to 3rd parties without the agreement of the National Point of Contact. A small number of documents have higher classifications and distribution is limited to NATO nations only.