LEADER 03653nam 22005895 450 001 9910484893103321 005 20250717133326.0 010 $a94-6265-044-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-6265-044-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000311901 035 $a(EBL)1966735 035 $a(OCoLC)908086108 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001408334 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11782376 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001408334 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11346469 035 $a(PQKB)10531819 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-6265-044-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1966735 035 $a(PPN)183149505 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000311901 100 $a20141203d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOPCW: The Legal Texts 205 $a3rd ed. 2015. 210 1$aThe Hague :$cT.M.C. Asser Press :$cImprint: T.M.C. Asser Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (794 p.) 300 $aAt head of title: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a94-6265-043-8 327 $aText of the Convention -- Declarations and Statements Made Upon Signature, Ratification or Accession -- Chemical Weapon (CW) Issues -- Chemical Weapons Storage Facility (CWSF) Issues -- Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility (CWDF) Issues -- Chemical Weapons Production Facility (CWPF) Issues -- Article VI Issues (Activities Not Prohibited) -- Challenge Inspection Issues -- Investigations of Alleged Use -- General Rules Of Verification -- Designated Laboratories -- OPCW Central Analytical Database -- Policy -- Facility Agreements (Articles IV, V and VI(3)) -- National Implementation Measures (Article VII). 330 $aThe Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997, bans an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. The CWC has now been in force for almost twenty years and having 190 States Parties as at July 2014, has almost achieved universal adherence. To achieve its objectives, the CWC established the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This third edition of 'OPCW: The Legal Texts' brings together the text of the Convention, the interpretative decisions and understandings reached by the organs of the OPCW, policies, rules of procedure, regulations, the conclusions of the three reviews undertaken by the States Parties of the operation of the Convention and key background texts. The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the Convention regime, as it has developed over the past seventeen years. Useful for national authoritiesresponsible for the operation of the Convention in their countries, governmental and non-governmental entities engaged in disarmament issues, legal advisers, practitioners and academics engaged either in disarmament matters, general public international law and treaty law. 606 $aHumanitarian law 606 $aInternational criminal law 606 $aInternational Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict 606 $aInternational Criminal Law 615 0$aHumanitarian law. 615 0$aInternational criminal law. 615 14$aInternational Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict. 615 24$aInternational Criminal Law. 676 $a340 676 $a341.48 676 $a345 712 02$aOrganisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484893103321 996 $aOPCW: The Legal Texts$92854649 997 $aUNINA