VERTIC: Datasets

Datasets

Verification Organisations Directory
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The Verification Organizations Directory (VOD) contains the latest contact details for, and basic information on the verification-related activities of, over 500 arms control and disarmament organizations located in countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and operating at the international, bilateral, regional and national levels. The VOD also contains information on non-governmental organizations and university and other research centres active in the field. It is searchable by type of organization, activity and country as well as by free-text entry.

Biological Weapons Convention:
Collection of national implementation legislation
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Article IV of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) requires states parties to adopt appropriate legal measures to ensure that the treaty’s fundamental prohibitions, contained in Article 1, are enforceable in national law. These include the prohibitions on developing, producing, stockpiling or otherwise acquiring or retaining microbial or other biological agents or toxins and their delivery systems for other than defensive purposes.

This collection contains such implementing legislation. In addition, legislation on other treaty issues, such as control of pathogens and relevant export controls, has been included where it is available.

Iraq weapons inspections database
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Since weapons inspections in Iraq resumed in November 2002, VERTIC has monitored the progress of United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors in Iraq. This site provides access to a searchable database that details each of the inspections conducted by the inspectors between 27 November 2002 and 17 March 2003, when the inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq. The VERTIC database of weapons inspections in Iraq aims to provide a detailed record of each inspection, as both a historical record of the inspections’ regime and to allow for quantitative and qualitative analyses of the inspections.