In January 1983, the Agency for the Control of Armaments (ACA) of Western European Union (WEU) publishes its annual report for the year 1982. The first part covers nuclear weapons, noting that the ACA has no control over nuclear warheads except for non-nuclear components that France sees as being complementary and inseparable from its strategic weapons. The report also focuses on the main weapons held by the member countries and concludes that the global economic recession has affected the procurement of weapons among the WEU Member States. On the matter of weapons development, it emphasises the fact that the states must work together on both production and development. The report also concludes that on-site inspections and documentary controls indicate that appropriate levels of armaments have been respected and that the consultation of documents has confirmed that no country is producing categories of weapons that it has undertaken not to produce and that the stocks of weapons do not exceed appropriate levels.