Entry into Force

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The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) opened for signature 13th January 1993. Entry into Force was after the ratification of 65 signatory states on 29th April 1997. To date there are 167 ratified States Parties and 20 Signatory States which are yet to ratify. There are 16 Non signatory States which have yet to accede to the convention. 

Regarding all activities for the regulation of pharmaceuticals at the European Union level. Article 71 of Regulation EEC/2309/93 required that T/Vithin 6 years of the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall publish a... 

Regarding all activities for the regulation of pharmaceuticals at the EU level. Article 71 of Regulation EEC/2309/93 that established the EMEA and the CPMP required that Within 6 years of the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall publish a general report on the experience of the procedures laid down in this Regulation, in Chapter 111 of Directive 75/319/EEC and in Chapter IV of Directive 81/851/EEC. The tender for review was awarded to a consortium of Cameron McKenna and Arthur Anderson. The full report from Cameron McKenna, dated October 2000 and entitled Evaluation of the Operation of Community Procedures for the Authorisation of... 

Medicinal products intended for administration to human beings, containing a new active substance which, on the date of entry into force of the Regulation, was not authorised by any Member State for use in a medicinal product intended for human use... 

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The entry into force of the 1993 CWC on 29 April 1997 was unique in the history of arms control. This agreement both banned an entire class of weapons and simultaneously addressed chemical proliferation concerns. It was not, however, the attention to non-proliferation that made the Convention unique, rather that the CWC incorporated an elaborate international system for verification of compliance.1... 

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The scope of the REACH Regulation is very wide and covers all substances manufactured, imported, used as intermediates or placed on the market, on their own, in preparations, or in papers.73 Some exceptions to this are substances that are radioactive, subject to customs supervision, or are nonisolated intermediates. Waste is specifically exempted. Food that meets the definition of a substance, on its own or in a preparation, will be subject to REACH however, such substances are largely exempted from Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization. Member States may exempt substances used in the interests of defense. Other substances are exempted from parts of REACH, where other equivalent legislation applies. The Commission will review the scope of the Regulation 5 years after entry into force. 

Figure 1. Comparison of the bodies approving analytical data for inclusion into OCAD before and after Entry into Force (EIF) of the CWC...

After Entry into Force (EIF) of the CWC, the Director-General established a new group, named the VG, comprising the participants of the Task Force of the Analytical Databases and other experts from States Parties of the OPCW. The VG, after EIF, replaced the Task Force of the Analytical Databases. 

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REACH introduces a single system covering both existing and new substances under the old system and categorises substances as either non-phase-in substances (i.e. those not produced or marketed prior to the entry into force of REACH) or phase-in substances (those listed in the European Inventory of Existing Commercial chemical Substances Information System - EINECS, or those that have been manufactured in the Community, but not placed on the Community market, in the last fifteen years). 

Special attention should be paid to persistent and bio-accumulating toxic chemicals. Work on a global convention on POPs should continue with a view to its entry into force as soon as possible, preferably by 2004. 

Mandatory national waste prevention programmes, which take account of the variety of national, regional and local conditions, to be finalised three years after entry into force of the directive ... 

By the time of the development of the CWC RevCon provisions in the late 1980s, the convening of Review Conferences of other multilateral arms control treaties at approximately five-yearly intervals had become an estabhshed norm, in particular for the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the BWC. The CWC negotiators readily agreed that CWC RevCons should be held no later than one year after the expiry of the fifth and the tenth year after entry into force of this Convention . Although the actual procedures to initiate RevCons under the CWC dif-... 

The Executive Council, which has oversight of the operations of the OPCW on behalf of the States Parties, has had substantial achievements since entry into force. However, there has been disappointment that the Executive Council has not been able to reach decisions on many important issues, including some dating back to the Paris Resolution (tasks that the Preparatory Commission was requested to resolve before entry into force) that are considered important for the effective operation of the OPCW. The unresolved issues include legal and technical ones related to industry declarations and verification. The Review Document expressed concern about these delays and urged the Executive Council to increase its momentum and strive to conclude all unresolved issues. ... 

Since the entry into force of the Convention, 63 States Parties have declared a total of over 4,000 inspectable OCPFs. Of these facilities, more than 100 had received inspections by the time of the RevCon. The Technical Secretariat has concluded that these inspections have shown that some of the OCPFs are highly relevant to the object and purpose of the Convention. These facilities produce chemicals that are structurally related to Schedule 1 chemicals. Of particular relevance to the Convention are facilities that combine this kind of chemistry with production equipment and other hardware designed to provide fiexibihty and containment. ... 

In an ideal world (and indeed as predicted by the optimists in the euphoric days following the CWC signing ceremony in Paris in January 1993), there would have been 65 ratifications (including Russia and the United States) by July 1994, followed by a smooth transition from the Preparatory Commission to the operational Convention at an entry into force in early 1995 by the end of 1995 the OPCW would have been humming along smoothly with 160-plus States Parties the first RevCon would have been convened in early 2000 and by June 2005 the OPCW would have been approaching its tenth anniversary, and the destruction of the US and Russian CW stockpiles would have been almost completed. Everybody would have marvelled at what could be achieved in arms control and disarmament in the post-Cold War era. 

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