The Slovak armed forces closed a destruction programme that had been running for a decade. The plan reported to the states parties of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, in the Slovak Modernization Department’s presentation on the M26 programme, covers thirteen lots and 299,608 submunitions, every line at 100 per cent. One lot accounts for just over 85 per cent of that total: 396 M26 rockets carrying 644 submunitions each, 255,024 in all, eliminated not in Slovakia but at an industrial site at Løkken Verk in Norway, under a contract the NATO Support and Procurement Agency signed with Nammo on 30 June 2022, with destruction completed on 31 May 2023. The armed forces processed the rest of the plan at home, by disassembly at the Military Technical and Testing Institute at Záhorie and by demolition in the blasting pit at Sklené and on the aerial range at Kuchyňa during explosive-ordnance-disposal training. The presentation gives the reason for the split, and it is not a shortage of capacity: burning an M26 rocket motor forms hydrogen chloride. A single environmental property of one item decided whether a national obligation could be discharged nationally. That is the shape of the problem examined here. Renewing ammunition stocks creates a continuing obligation to manage the material that leaves military service, and the public record shows that obligation being discharged. What the record does not show is the condition on which the route stays open: whether a public owner that needs a treatment service can obtain one, lawfully and to a timetable, when the requirement arises.