Its scope of application, which included non-international armed conflicts, had influenced every major international humanitarian law instrument concluded subsequently and had provided the template for the successful amendment of article 1 of the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
De par son champ d'application, qui comprend les conflits armés non internationaux, le Protocole a eu une influence sur chacun des grands instruments de droit international humanitaire conclus par la suite et a servi de modèle pour la modification de l'article premier de la Convention sur certaines armes classiques.