If your organization will be holding an event to promote or facilitate national implementation of NBC obligations, and you would like to have it listed here, please send details to rocio.escauriaza[at]vertic.org
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 23 to 27 August
VERTIC Statement
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 7 to 11 December
Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Date: 30 November to 4 December
Presenters: Scott Spence (Senior Legal Officer)
VERTIC presentation:
VERTIC’s National Implementing Measures
Programme
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Date: 20-21 October
Presenters: Angela Woodward (Program Director) and Scott Spence (Senior Legal Officer)
VERTIC presentations:
Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs) for the 1972 Biological Weapons Conventionon and Transcript
Regional perspectives: the BWC in the Middle East/North Africa Regional Perspectives
National Implementation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and UN Security Council Resolution 1540
VERTIC’s National Implementing Measures Programme
For further information please visit the BWC Implementation Support Unit's website.
Location: New York, United States
Date: 1 October
Presenters: Rocío Escauriaza Leal, Legal Officer
For further information please visit the Stanley Foundation's website
Location: Astana, Kazakhstan
Date: 16-17 September
Presenters: Scott Spence, Senior Legal Officer
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 24 August 2009
Presenter: Scott Spence, Senior Legal Officer
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 4 December 2008
Presenter: Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC
Title: 'Reaching a tipping point: achieving the universalization of the CBMs in the BWC'
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 1st December 2008
Presenter: Rocío Escauriaza Leal, Legal Officer
VERTIC Statement in English, Spanish and French
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 19 August 2008
Presenter: VERTIC
Title: 'National Implementation Measures for Effective Biosecurity and Biosafety'
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 18 August 2008
Presenter: Rocío Escauriaza Leal
VERTIC's Statement in English, French and Spanish
Location: Lilongwe, Malawi
Date: 5 June 2008
Presenter: Rocio Escauriaza Leal, Research Assistant, VERTIC
Title: VERTIC Presentation on 'National Implementation of BTWC Obligations'
English (PDF 238kb)
Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Date: 9 April 2008
Presenter: Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC
Title: VERTIC Statement on 'National Implementation'
English (PDF 49kb)
Other statements and presentations
Location: San Remo, Italy
Date: 12 February 2008
Presenter: Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC
Title: 'REPORT OF THE SEMINAR ON “THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION BETWEEN DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW'
English (PDF 66kb)
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 10-14 December 2007
Presenter: Angela Woodward, Executive Director, VERTIC
Title: 'Practical contributions of civil society to national
implementation and regional cooperation'
English
(PDF 107kb)
Spanish
(PDF 111kb)
OPCW Open-Ended Group Meeting concerning the Second Review Conference of
the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
Date: 19 November 2007
Presenter: Rocio Escauriaza, VERTIC Research Assistant
Title: 'VERTIC statement to the OPCW Open-Ended Group Meeting'
English (PDF 102k)
Spanish (PDF 112k)
OPCW press
release on the meeting
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 20-24 August 2007
Presenter: BWC Implementation Support Unit, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, Geneva
Title: 'International and Regional Initiatives to Enhance National Implementation of the Convention'
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 20-24 August 2007
Presenter: The Governments of the Kingdom of Netherlands and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Title: 'Building Capacity to Implement the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention: Summary of a VERTIC Project'
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 20-24 August 2007
Presenter: The Government of Switzerland
Title: 'National data collection processes for CBM submissions'
Paper written with the participation of VERTIC
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Date: 6-7 August 2007
Presenter: Angela Woodward
Title: 'National measures to prevent violations of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention'
Location: New York, New York, USA
Date: 12 July 2007
VERTIC representative: Angela Woodward
Location: Geneva, Switzerland (on the margins of the BWC Sixth Review Conference)
Date: 5 Dec 2006
Presenter: Angela Woodward
Title: 'Interpol's Model Law to prohibit biocrimes and to promote biosafety and biosecurity'
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Date: 30 Nov-1 Dec
Presenter: Angela Woodward
Title: 'The national implementation of weapons related treaties'
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 21 November 2006
Presenter: Michael Crowley
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Date: 16-17 November 2006
Presenter: Andreas Persbo
Title: 'UN Security Council Resolution 1540 and its relevance for global export controls'
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date: 7 November
Presenter: Michael Crowley
Title: 'Steps towards a Middle East WMD Free Zone—examining verification and national implementation measures'
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Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 22-23 August 2006
Presenter: Angela Woodward
Title: 'National measures to implement the Biological Weapons Convention in Latin America' ('Medidas tomadas por los Estados de América Latina para aplicar la Convención de 1972 sobre armas biológicas')
Location: Santiago, Chile
Date: 10-14 July 2006
Presenter: Angela Woodward
Title: 'A Model Law: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Crimes Act'
Location: Singapore
Date: 27-31 March 2006
Presenter: Angela Woodward
Title: 'A Model Law: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Crimes Act'