Conference of the Committee

A draft convention was submitted by the UK in 1969 to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament and this gained support from first the USA and then from the Soviet Union. It is, however, evident that its content was considerably diluted in a bilateral negotiations between the USA and the Soviet Union who, consciously or unconsciously, gutted the draft treaty of some of its more important components (Sims, 2001). Nevertheless, this led to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) which opened for signature on 10 April 1972 and entered into force three years later on 26 March 1975. 

Koiakowska, A., Szczygielski, M., and Giowacka, D., 1993, Bream lipids composition and properties — effect of catch season, in Food Quality — Raw Materials and Technological Conditions, 24th Scientific Conference of the Committee for Food Technology and Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, conference proceedings, 79, (in Polish). 

In 1972, following two years of additional negotiation, the BTWC was complete. The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, which grew out of the Eighteen-Nation Committee, was ready to submit the text of the document to the United Nations General Assembly. The key provisions of the Convention were as follows ... 

Final Record of the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament , Document CCD/PV 666. 

The Conference on Disarmament is the current name of the multilateral negotiating body which has been variously known as the Ten Nation Committee on Disarmament (TNCD), the Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament (ENDC), the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (CCD), and the Committee on Disarmament (CD). In the following text, the CD is referred to by the name which was current during the period under discussion. 

In its report to the UNGA 30th Session, the CCD noted a report by the US and Soviet delegations that steps had been taken with regard to the commitment made at the July 1974 summit meeting between their leaders to consider a joint initiative in the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament... but no details of these steps were given. 

Joint US/Soviet statement of 9 May 1978, dted in the Report of the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, Vol. I, UN Document A/33/27, Record of the United Nations General Assembly, 33rd Session, 1978. 

But on this day, Dr. Neubacher championed a "Farben New Order." Dr. Neubacher was the best-informed man in Vienna on all Austrian industries, and Keppler wavered. A few days later, according to the report of a mail conference of the commercial committee, "State Secretary Keppler wishes to receive reports from Dr. Neubacher."... 

Henderson, R.F. 1992. Short-term exposure guidelines for emergency response The approach of the Committee on Toxicology. Pp. 89—92 in Conference on Chemical Risk Assessment in the Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Policy, and Practice, H.J.Clewell, III, ed. American Conference of Governmental Hygienists, Cincinnati, OH. 

Following selection and approval of the committee members by the Examinations Institute director, the committee begins work on the lengthy process of writing the examination. Typically, the physical chemistry committee meets at the site of each ACS national meeting until work on the examination is completed. Some of the other examination committees may meet at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education or the ChemEd conference. At the first committee meeting, the committee will typically discuss and make decisions on several items. The first of these items is which examinations will result at the end of the process. Previous committees have opted to write only a comprehensive examination, or a suite of examinations in thermodynamics, dynamics, and quantum mechanics. A second question is how many questions are needed for each examination, and if the multiple choice format is used, how many responses will be used for each question. For example, the committee writing the 2000 set of examinations chose 40 questions with four responses, while the committee for the 2006 set chose 50 questions with four responses. This decision becomes important because it defines the number of questions that need to be written. 

Polyakov, G.D. (1958). Underfeeding as a cause of mortality in the wintering finger-lings of carp (In Russian). Proceedings of Conference of Ichthyological Committee of Academy of Sciences of USSR, Moscow , Vol. 8, pp. 255-260. Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 

Breeze screening. American Gas Association, Joint Committee Conference of the Production and Chemical Committees, New York. 

During the CWC negotiations, the United States was one of the most vocal members of the Conference on Disarmament that advocated the kind of provisions that finally became paragraph 41, which is said to be the result of the US insistence. See Letter from Ivo Spalatin, Director of Congressional Affairs, US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, to Lee H. Hamilton, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives, 29 November 1994, pp. 2-3. 

S. W. Thompson, Proceedings of the Committee on Food Research, in Conference on Deterioration of Fats Oils, Quartermaster Corps Manual 17-7, 1945. 

It is my great pleasure to introduce the proceedings of the ESIS TC4 conference, Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives , which was held in the mountain resort of Les Diablerets, Switzerland between 15-18 September 2002. This was the third conference organised by TC4 and, as on the two previous occasions, it reflects the main activities of the committee which are focussed on developing fracture mechanics test methods for polymers, adhesive joints and composites. 

The CTBT was hammered out in the Conference on Disarmament, a 61-member international forum, beginning in January 1994. In that committee, the US, Russia, the UK, France and China (members of the nuclear club ) and a number of the non-nuclear weapons states worked together. Negotiations were greatly aided by behind-the-scenes efforts from a number of states, especially Australia, as well as by the diplomatic skills of the committee chairs. 

The academy publications discussed hitherto, periodicals or serials, are scheduled publications. In addition to these the academy issues occasional volumes dealing with specific topics a conference called to discuss spectroscopic methods, or fiotation problems, or the theory of chemical bonds. The papers presented at such conferences and the discussion of these papers will appear in one or more volumes, usually called Trudy Konferentsii po. .. or Trudy Soveshchaniya po. . . followed by the name of the topic of the conference. A similar type of material is presented by the work of a committee appointed by the academy to study a certain field or problem. The work of the committee may extend over several years. Papers written by members and papers invited by them appear in one or more volumes, usually as Trudy Komissii po. . . followed by the subject of the investigation, such as Andliticheskoi Khimii. 

A report of the Committee on Nomenclature of the National Research Council, suggesting some modifications, was examined at the September 1951 conference in the United States. 

The requirements for effective verification were spelt out for example by Ambassador Mahley during the 1994 Special Conference of the States Parties to the BWC. See Statement of US Representative Donald A. Mahley to the Committee of the Whole, September 22, 1994, document BWC/SPCONF/ WP.16, last accessed 10 March 2004 at www.opbw.org. 

The draft final document of the Conference as issued by the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole is available at www.acronym.org.uk/bwc/ index.htm. 

Following the 1970 conference, F. A. Matsen, Harrison Shull, Peter Lykos, and Frank Harris, a physicist at the University of Utah, were designated to draft the conference report and to take appropriate steps to initiate implementation of the recommendations. Despite the lukewarm response of the Committee on Science and Public Policy, one of the steps they took was to send... 

However, the convention is open for addition of new POPs to be included and to be listed in either of the Annexes A (elimination), B (permitted uses) or C (unintentional releases). To do so, a formal process has been set up in the convention the process is led by the POP Review Committee (POPRC). The POPRC is a subsidiary body to the Stockholm Convention, established pursuant to paragraph 6(d) of Article 19 of the Convention. The mandate of the POPRC is to perform the functions assigned to it by the Convention, including the scientific review of the proposals and related information submitted by Parties to the Convention for listing new chemicals in Annex A, B and C according to Article 8 of the Convention, and to make recommendations to the Conference of the Parties. 

The following negotiations in the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee and the Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention led to the establishment of a pilot phase of Activities Implemented Jointly to gain experience in cooperative projects to reduce emissions. The pilot phase permits Annex I... 

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