Declaration of Riot Control Agents

S/1177/2014 contaming a Note by the Technieal Seeretariat dated 1 May 2014 and entitled Declaration of Riot Control Agents Adviee from the Scientific Advisory Board  

In accordance with subparagraph 1(e) of Article III of the Chemical Weapons Convention (hereinafter the Convention ), States Parties are required to declare riot control agents (RCAs), which are defined in paragraph 7 of Article II of the Convention. 

At its Twentieth Session, the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) was requested by the Director-General (Annex 4 of SAB-20/1, dated 14 June 2013) to provide technical advice on an initial list of RCAs that had been declared by States Parties, researched, or were commercially available. 

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