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The Conference shall establish at its first session the voluntary fund for assistance in accordance with Article X (Article VIII, subparagraph 21(j)) The Executive Council shall conclude agreements with States Parties on behalf of the Organisation in connection with Article X and supervise the voluntary fund referred to in Article X (Article VIII, subparagraph 34 (b)) and the Technical Secretariat shall administer the voluntary fund referred to in Article X (Article VIII, subparagraph 39(c)). 

One of these exercises simulated the entire challenge inspection process from the submission of the request, the convening of a special session of the Executive Council to consider the request, through to the preparation of a final report. These practice inspections are seen as valuable experience for the Executive Council, the Technical Secretariat and States Parties in preparing for the possibility of a real challenge inspection. 

Consider and adopt at its regular sessions the report, programme and budget of the Organization, submitted by the Executive Council, as well as consider other reports Decide on the scale of financial contributions to be paid by States Parties in accordance with paragraph 7 ... 

If the doubt or concern of a State Party about a possible non-compliance has not been resolved within 60 days after the submission of the request for clarification to the Executive Council, or it believes its doubts warrant urgent consideration, notwithstanding its right to request a challenge inspection, it may request a special session of the Conference in accordance with Article VIII, paragraph 12 (c). At such a special session, the Conference shall consider the matter and may recommend any measure it deems appropriate to resolve the situation. 

The requesting State Party and the inspected State Party shall have the right to participate in the review process. The Executive Council shall inform the States Parties and the next session of the Conference of the outcome of the process. 

A decision on the request shall be taken by the Conference at its next session, on the recommendation of the Executive Council. Any extension shall be the rrrinimum necessary, but in no case shall the deadline for a State Party to complete its destruction of all chemical weapons be extended beyond 15 years after the entry into force of this Convention. The Executive Council shall set conditions for the granting of the extension, including the specific verification measures deemed necessary as well as specific actions to be taken by the State Party to overcome problems in its destruction programme. Costs of verification during the extension period shall be allocated in accordance with Article IV, paragraph 16. 

If a State ratifies or accedes to this Convention after the six-year period for conversion set forth in paragraph 72, the Executive Council shall, at its second subsequent regular session, set a deadline for submission of any request to convert a chemical weapons production facility for purposes not prohibited under this Convention. A decision by the Conference to approve such a request, pursuant to paragraph 75, shall establish the earliest practicable deadline for completion of the conversion. Conversion shall be completed as soon as possible, but in no case later than six years after this Convention enters into force for the State Party. Except as modified in this paragraph, all provisions in Section D of this Part of this Annex shall apply. 

At its regular session in the third year after entry into force of this Convention, the Conference, upon advice of the Executive Council, shall decide on which basis (e.g. regional) proposals by States Parties for inspections should be presented to be taken into account as a weighting factor in the selection process specified in paragraph 11. 

Recalling that the Executive Council had been requested by the Conference of the States Parties at its Third Session to continue addressing the issue of the attribution of the costs related to inspections of old and abandoned chemical weapons, with a view to making appropriate recommendations for a decision to be taken on these matters by the Conference at its Fourth Session ... 

C-11/DEC.20 adopted by the Conference of the States Parties at its Eleventh Session on 8 December 2006 and entitled Visits by representatives of the Executive Council ... 

Having considered the decision by the Executive Council (hereinafter the Council ) at its Forty-Fourth Session (EC-44/DEC.8, dated 15 March 2006) regarding a request by A State Party for an extension of the deadline by which it must destroy all of its Category 1 chemical weapons stockpiles ... 

Recalling further that, according to Part IV (A), paragraph 24, of the Verification Annex, if a State Party believes that it will be unable to ensure the destruction of all of its Category 1 chemical weapons not later than 10 years after the entry into force of the Convention, it may submit a request to the Executive Council (hereinafter the Council ) for an extension of the deadline for completing the destruction of such chemical weapons, and that, according to paragraph 26 of that Part, a decision on the request shall be taken by the Conference of the States Parties (hereinafter the Conference ) at its next session, on the recommendation of the Council ... 

EC-51/DEC.1 adopted by the Executive Council at its Fifty-First Session on 27 November 2007 and entitled Timely Submission by States Parties of declarations under Article VI of the Convention ... 

Noting that the Executive Council (hereinafter the Council ), at its Thirty-Eighth (EC-3 8/2, dated 15 October 2004) and Thirty-Ninth Sessions (EC-39/2, dated 14 December 2004), urged all States Parties to meet their obligations regarding annual declarations in a timely manner ... 

Noting the decision by the Executive Council at its Tenth Meeting recommending that the Conference of the States Parties consider and adopt this decision at its Fifth Session ... 

Recalling also that the Conference of the States Parties (hereinafter the Conference ) at its Second Session in C-II/DEC.8, dated 5 December 1997, and the Executive Council (hereinafter the Council ), in EC-VIII/DEC.2, dated 30 January 1998, and EC-IX/DEC.10 , dated 24 April 1998, also requested States Parties to provide the basis on which Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 chemicals are to be declared and recalling also the reports by the Technical Secretariat (hereinafter the Secretariat ) on information provided by States Parties in this regard ... 

Recalling in particular the decision by the Executive Council (hereinafter the Council) at its Twelfth Meeting to refer to the Conference, at its Sixth Session, its recommendation for approval of the provisions on transfers of Schedule 3 chemicals to States not party to the Convention (EC-M-XII/DEC. 1, dated 4 May 2001) ... 

Bearing in mind that, in paragraph 7.73 of its report (RC-1/5, dated 9 May 2003), the First Special Session of the Conference of the States Parties to Review the Operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention concluded that all States Parties should take the necessary measures to ensure full implementation of the Convention s requirement for end-use eertifieation by recipient States not Party, and requested the Executive Council to submit a recommendation on this matter to the Conference at its Tenth Session ... 

C-I/DEC.45 adopted by the Conferenee of the States Parties at its First Session on 16 May 1997 and entitled Illustrative list of objeetive indicators to facilitate the Executive Council in addressing any concern, in accordance with paragraph 22 of Article IX, whether the right to request a challenge inspection has heen abused ... 

The Executive Council proposes that a eonsultative mechanism be established by the Seeond Session of the Conference of the States Parties to enable approved validated spectra to be plaeed on the OPCW Central Analytical Database. The eonsultative mechanism should be implemented in the following manner ... 

Noting that the Executive Council, at its Nineteenth Session, adopted a decision recommending that the Conference call upon States Parties to provide assistance to support the efforts of the Russian Federation (EC-X1X/DEX.7, dated 7 April 2000) ... 

EC-M-23/DEC.3 adopted by the Executive Council at its Twenty-Third Meeting on 29 October 2003 and entitled Action plan for the universality of the Chemical Weapons Convention at the recommendation of the First Special Session of the Conference to review the operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and noted by the Conference of the States Parties at its Eighth Session... 

Recalling that the First Special Session of the Conference of the States Parties to Review the Operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (hereinafter the First Review Conference ) attached great importance to the attainment of universal adherence by States to the Chemical Weapons Convention (hereinafter the Convention ) and acting upon the recommendation of the First Review Conference that the Executive Council (hereinafter the Council ), with the cooperation of the Technical Secretariat, develop and implement a plan of action to further encourage, in a systematic and coordinated manner, adherence to the Convention, and to assist States ready to join the Convention in their national preparations for its implementation ... 

Concern regarding the Director-General s statement in his report to the Sixty-Eighth Session of the Executive Council, provided in accordance with paragraph 2 of C-16/ DEC. 11, dated 1 December 2011, that three possessor States Parties, namely Libya, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America, have been unable to fully meet the final extended deadline of 29 April 2012 for the destruction of their chemical weapons stockpiles (EC-68/DG.9, dated 1 May 2012) ... 

The following is the consolidated text of the Staff Regulations, approved by the Conference of States Parties at its Fourth Session and amended at its Tenth, Twelfth and Seventeenth Sessions, and the Interim Staff Rules, as amended by the Director-General, and as promulgated by the Director-General by OPCW-S/DGB/19 of 30 March 2012. It also reflects the amendment of Interim Staff Rule 4.1.05 as approved by the Executive Council at its Forty-Third Meeting on 24 July 2014 (EC-76/DEC.6, dated 24 July 2014). 

The Director-General shall submit to each regular session of the Conference of the States Parties, through the Executive Council, a report on the collection of contributions to the budget and advances to the Working Capital Fund, drawing attention to the provisions of Article VIII, paragraph 8 of the Convention as appropriate. 

C-II/DEC.14 adopted by the Conferenee of the States Parties at its Second Session on S December 1997 and entitled Operating proeedures of the Confidentiality Commission . The Registry Agreement between the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the Permanent Court of Arbitration was approved by the Executive Council in its decision EC-XII/DEC.6 dated 9 October 1998 and signed on 9 December 1998. 

The Secretary-General shall be entitled to attend and to participate in relation to matters of common interest, without vote and in accordance with the relevant rules of procedure, in sessions of the Conference of the States Parties and in sessions of the Executive Council of the OPCW. The Secretary-General shall also be invited as appropriate to attend and to participate without vote in such other meetings as the OPCW may convene at which matters of interest to the United Nations are under consideration. The Secretary-General may, for the purposes of this paragraph, designate any person as his/her representative. 

The Commission shall prepare a final report on aU matters within its mandate for the first session of the Conference of the States Parties and the first meeting of the Executive Council. 

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