Chemical weapons prohibition

The Australian implementing legislation, which is known as the Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act, provides that ... 

The Australian Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act does not contain a permit scheme for OCPFs. It does, however, require notice to the government of any OCPF operating above the thresholds specified in the CWC. i... 

Both natural and legal persons are covered by the legislation of Australia and France. The Australian Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act speaks in terms of prohibitions on persons . This term is not specifically defined in the Act. However, under general principles of Australian law, bodies corporate, as well as individuals, would be covered. Similarly, the French legislation does not explicitly address the issue of the persons that it covers. However, it is apparent from general principles of French law, and from the fact that the penalties section of the legislation identifies penalties for both corporate and natural persons, that both would indeed be covered. 

The chemical weapons prohibition regime is much farther developed than its BW counterpart. Yet, over the course of CWC... 

Provisional Technical Secretariat Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons... 

The analytical strategy accepted in the laboratory designated by the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons will be discussed. 

This class of agents is not covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention. Because of the toxicity of the agents and lack of commercial application, carbamate nerve agents would be prohibited based on the Guidelines for Schedules of Chemicals. 

In addition to the agents detailed in this handbook, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) identifies in its Declaration Handbook 2002 for the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction another five agents in this class. However, there is no information available in the unclassified literature concerning the physical, chemical, or toxicological properties of these additional agents. 

Chapter 21 contains four indices to allow easy access to specific agents in this handbook. These indices are the Alphabetical Index of names, the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers index, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) numbers index, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) agent numbers index. These indices contain synonyms and identifying numbers for the agents in this handbook that are cross-referenced to the individual agents via the handbook number. 

Only in 1997 the Convention on chemical weapons took effect for 87 member-countries - initiators of the Convention. According to the Convention to perform the requirements was created the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with headquarters in Hague. 

Key WOrds Chemical Weapons (CW), CW Convention (CWC), CW Production Facilities (CWPF), CW destruction, CWPF destruction conversion, CW nonproduction, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), First Review Conference, Chemical terrorism. ... 

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, shortly described as Convention on general and comprehensive prohibition of chemical weapons, or Chemical Weapons Convention, abbreviated as CWC, was adopted in 1992 after complex negotiations on the basis of The Conference on Disarmament (and previous multilateral negotiating fora in Geneva), lasting nearly a quarter of a century mainly due to the worldwide spread of chemical industry and relatively easy... 

Especially the latter two numbers are still quite insufficient taking into consideration the tasks of such governmental office in the national implementation measures starting with the respective legislation and then supervision of the domestic chemical industry and any cooperative activities with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). 

Pursuant to the CWC, after its signature, the Preparatory Commission was founded and after EIF the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was established with HQ in The Hague / The Netherlands (Johan de Wittlaan 32, 2517 JR Den Haag). See also http// www.opcw.org. The Organisation consists of three main elements ... 

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