Background documents
The Chemical Weapons Convention: A Commentary (Third Edition)
Edited by Walter Krutzsch, Eric Myjer, and Ralf Trapp, Oxford Commentaries on International Law, August 2014, OUP
Scott Spence, “Efforts by the OPCW to Promote Universality”, pp 27-36 and “Articles XVIII to XXI: Signature, Ratification, Accession and Entry-into-Force”, pp 419-422
National Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Using the law to prevent chemical weapons
By Yasemin Balci, CWC 3rd Review Conference Special Issue, Non-Proliferation Monthly, Special Issue 78 2013/II
English, French
The Future of the CWC: implications for national implementation
By Yasemin Balci, ‘The future of the CWC in the postdestruction phase’, European Union Institute for Security Studies Report No 15, March 2013, edited by Jean Pascal Zanders
National Implementing Legislation for the CWC
By Angela Woodward, OPCW Today, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 13-14, August 2012
Chemical terrorism: prevention, response and the role of legislation
By Scott Spence, Trust & Verify No. 131, Oct-Dec 2010, VERTIC
OPCW: The Legal Texts (Second Edition)
Compiled by Lisa Woolomes Tabassi, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
With: Santiago Oñate Laborde, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
With: Donata Rugarabamu, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
With: Florian Fehres, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Hardback ISBN: 9789067043182
Publication date: February 2010
Improving CWC implementation: the OPCW Action Plan
Lisa Tabassi and Scott Spence, Verification Yearbook 2004, VERTIC
Impact of Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention
(IUPAC Technical Report), Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 74, No. 12, pp. 2323–2352, 2002. © 2002 IUPAC 2323, International Union Of Pure And Applied Chemistry
Prepared for publication by George W. Parshall, Graham S. Pearson, Thomas D. Inch, and Edwin D. Becker.
The curious case of Kim Jong-nam and Malaysia’s CWC legislation
Scott Spence, Trust & Verify No.156, VERTIC, Spring 2017
NIM@10 A decade of implementation work
Scott Spence, Trust & Verify No.160, VERTIC, Spring 2018
Salisbury and the 1996 Chemical Weapons Act
Yasemin Balci, Trust & Verify No.160, VERTIC, Spring 2018
Strengthening accountability for CBW use
Cédric Apercé, Trust & Verify No.161, VERTIC, Summer 2018
CWC Annex on Chemicals changed for the first time
Thomas Brown, Trust & Verify No.165, VERTIC, February 2020
Implementation Assistance Programme (IAP)
IAP CWC Implementation Manual
CWC overview
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Establishing a National Authority
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Glossary
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Chemical products
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Declarations
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Import / Export
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Inspections
English, French, Spanish
Compliance activities
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Outreach
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Tools
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