Prohibited activities

The national implementation of international chemical disarmament and non-proliferation obligations has been a key focus of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). During the 2003 Review Conference for the CWC, a number of States Parties presented papers emphasizing the need for comprehensive national laws to control prohibited activities. The need for national implementation was also a central tenet of the Political Declaration of the CWC Review Conference, and was further elaborated in its Report. ... 

It should be noted that the obligation undertaken imder sub-paragraph (b) in particular is very broad. The use of the term measures in the chapeau of the provision, combined with the breadth of the obligation to ensure that prohibited activities do not occur, indicates that a State Party may have to take a variety of actions. For example, it could be read to require a State Party to have in place a regulatory structure that ensures that the provisions of the CWC are not violated, as well as to require that a State Party enforce any legislation that it already has in place. 

Optometrists who commit an act that is outside the scope of licensure are subject to discipline by the state board of optometry. Disciplinary measures that the board may use include reprimand, suspension of licensure, and revocation of licensure. Boards may also seek injunctions against continuation of the prohibited activity or may enter into consent agreements in which the defendant optometrist agrees not to continue the proscribed conduct. See Classe JG. Legal aspects of optometry. Boston Butterworth, 1989 152-180. 

Prohibited activities Prohibited activities can result in the state revoking, suspending, or denying emergency kits containing controlled substances in a LTCF. 

Prohibited activities. The employer shall ensure that employees do not eat, drink, smoke, chew tobacco or gum, or apply cosmetics in regulated areas. 

The presence of any one or any combination of these factors does not necessarily indicate that there is ongoing prohibited activities contrary to object and purpose of the Convention. However, these factors observed by the inspectors must be integrated with other information available to the Technical Secretariat in determining the frequency and intensity of inspections for that facility. 

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