OPCW: The Legal Texts

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2015.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Law.; International humanitarian law.; International criminal law.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; International Criminal Law.

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997, bans an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. The CWC has now been in force for almost twenty years and havin...

Table of Contents:

• Text of the Convention
• Declarations and Statements Made Upon Signature, Ratification or Accession
• Chemical Weapon (CW) Issues
• Chemical Weapons Storage Facility (CWSF) Issues
• Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility (CWDF) Issues
• Chemical Weapons Production Facility (CWPF) Issues
• Article VI Issues (Activities Not Prohibited)
• Challenge Inspection Issues
• Investigations of Alleged Use
• General Rules Of Verification
• Designated Laboratories
• OPCW Central Analytical Database
• Policy
• Facility Agreements (Articles IV, V and VI(3))
• National Implementation Measures (Article VII).