Chemical Weapons Convention Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Mesilaakso is currently Acting Director of the Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (VERIFTN former CW Project) at the University of Helsinki. Before this, he worked at VERIFIN as a Research Scientist, Quality Manager and Research Director. He is a member of the Finnish National Authority of the CWC, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Defense of Finland, and a member of the OPCW Validation Group for data evaluation to the OPCW Central Analytical Database. 

For a detailed discussion, see the report from the lUPAC Workshop, Impact of Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention , Bergen, Norway, 30 June-3 July 2002, published in Pure and Applied Chemistry (official journal of the International Union of Pure and Apphed Chemistry), 74 12 (December 2002). See also the Note by the Director-General Report of the Scientific Advisory Board on Developments in Science and Technology , document of the First Review Conference, RC-1/ DG.2, dated 23 April 2003. 

The Scientific Advisory Board has been established by the Director-General of the OPCW to carry out the functions ascribed to it in paragraphs 21(h) and 45 of Article VIII of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (hereinafter referred to as the Convention ). The terms of reference for the Board were adopted by the Conference of the States Parties (C-II/DEC. 10, dated 5 December 1997). 

---