The emerging protocol: A quantified evaluation of the regime

Ye

Report of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop Cantacuzino Institute: Bucharest 3-5 June 1999

Ye

The CWC Verification Regime: Implications for the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industry

Ye

Relevant Scientific and Technological Developments for the First CWC Review Conference: The BTWC Review Conference Experience

Ye

Visits: An Essential Portfolio

Ye

The Necessity for Non-Challenge Visits

YesIn the discussions that have taken place over the past six years since the establishment by the Third Review Conference1 in 1991 of the Ad Hoc Group of Governmental Experts,known as VEREX, to identify and examine potential verification measures from a scientific and technical viewpoint, there has been an increasing debate about the role of non-challenge visits in a regime for a strengthened Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). The arguments as to why on-site investigations are an essential and central element to such a strengthened regime were addressed in the Briefing Paper issued2 in July 1997. In this Briefing Paper, the necessity for non-challenge visits is addressed drawing upon the previous VEREX, Ad Hoc Group (AHG), Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) experience. The advantages and disadvantages of a regime containing non-challenge visits are considered and the conclusion is reached that the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages and that non-challenge visits are an important element which could contribute significantly to the effectiveness of a future legally binding instrument to strengthen the BTWC

Article III: Further Building Blocks

Ye

A Code of Conduct for the Life Sciences: A Practical Approach

Ye

Discriminating Triggers for Mandatory Declarations

Ye

Two Decades of Strengthening CBW Prohibitions: Priorities for the BTWC in the 21st Century

Ye