OPCW: The Legal Texts

Chemical Weapons Convention.- Text of the Convention.- Declarations and Statements Made Upon Signature, Ratification or Accession.- Interpretation.- Chemical Weapons (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.- Central OPCW Analytical Database.- Implementation.- Policy.- Facility Agreements (Articles IV, V and VI(3) of the Convention).- National Implementation Measures (Article VII).- Privileges and Immunities (Article VIII, Section E, of the Convention).- Protection (Article X).- International Cooperation and Assistance.- Universality.- Training.- Review of Operation of the Convention.- Procedures and mandates of the OPCW.- Conference of the States Parties (Article VIII(B) of the Cnvention).- Executive Council (Article VIII(C) of the Convention).- Technical Secretariat (Article VIII(D) of the Convention).- Scientific Advisory Board (Article VIII, Subparagraphs 21(H) and 45).- Confidentiality Commission (Confidentiality Annex, Paragraph 23).- Advisory Body on Administrative and Financial Matters.- Committee on Relations with the Host Country.- Relationship with Other International Organizations.- Relationship with the United Nations.- Relationship with other International Organisations.- History.- Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, 1925 (Geneva Protocol of 1925).- Material Transmitted by the Conference on Disarmament.- UN General Assembly Resolution.- Paris Resolution Establishing thePreparatory Commission for the OPCW and Related Understandings.- Protocol Regarding the Transfer of Assets, Liabilities, Records and Functions from the Preparatory Commission to the OPCW.- Emblem of the OPCW.