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Arms control &
disarmament projects
Survey
of National Implementation Legislation
Researcher: Angela
Woodward
Funder: John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust,
UK Global Opportunities Fund (GOF)
Publications
and online resources (national implementation legislation)
Angela Woodward, 'Banning
Biological Weapons: National Legislation In Africa', African Security
Review, 14(1) 2005.
Time
to lay down the law: national legislation to enforce the BWC.
Final report launched at the Biological Weapons Convention Meeting of
States Parties, held in Geneva from 10-14 November 2003.
Angela
Woodward, 'National
implementing laws for arms control and disarmament treaties', Verification
Yearbook 2003. VERTIC, 2003.
Statement
to the Meeting of States Parties to the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention. Delivered by Angela Woodward to the BWC Meeting of
States Parties in Geneva on 12 November 2003.
Biological
Weapons Convention: Collection of national implementation legislation
An online dataset of BWC implementing legislation collated by VERTIC as
part of the project to promote verification of the 1972 Biological Weapons
Convention was also launched at the BWPP meeting. This dataset was updated
through December 2003.
VERTIC Questionnaire:
Status of National Legal Measures to Implement the Article 1 Prohibitions
of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention
VERTIC Questionnaire:
Statut des Mesures Légales Nationales pour l’entrée
en vigeur des interdictions continues dans l’Article 1 de la Convention
sur les Armes Biologiques de 1972
VERTIC Cuestionario:
Situación de las Medidas Jurídicas Nacionales para la puesta
en práctica de las prohibiciones del Articulo 1 de la Convención
de Armas Biológicas de 1972
VERTIC Questionnaire:
Status of National Legal Measures to Implement the Article 1 Prohibitions
of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention [ARABIC]
Time
to lay down the law: the status of national laws to enforce the BWC.
Draft report published for consideration by the Biological Weapons Convention
Meeting of Experts, held in Geneva from 18-29 August 2003.
Statement
to the Meeting of Experts to the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
Delivered by Angela Woodward to the BWC Meeting of Experts in Geneva on
19 August 2003.
Findlay, Trevor. ‘Presentation
on VERTIC’s project on BWC National Implementation Legislation’,
to Geneva Forum Seminar ‘The BTWC Work Programme (2003-2005): what
does it mean and what can it achieve?’, Palais des Nations, Geneva,
1 July 2003
‘Survey
of National Implementation Measures adopted for the BWC’, presentation
by Angela Woodward, at the launch of the BioWeapons Prevention Project
(BWPP), at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 November
2002.
Links
BioWeapons Prevention Project (BWPP)
British
American Security Information Council (BASIC), Biological Weapons Program
Center for
Non-Proliferation Studies (CNS), Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation
Program
Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
(CBACI)
GeneWatch UK
Harvard-Sussex
Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation (HSP)
Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Chemical and Biological Warfare Project
Sunshine Project
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Website
United
Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs (UNDDA)
University of Bradford, Project
on Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Working Group on
Biological and Chemical Weaponds, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
World Health Organization, Department
of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response
The above publications
are available in portable document format (PDF) and require the installation
of Adobe Reader 4.0 or higher. To download a free copy of the software
visit the Adobe
website.
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