Overview
Unique compilation of all the OPCW official documents and other materials that are of importance for the interpretation of the Chemical Weapons Convention
Includes the latest versions of the various legislative instruments
Includes a comprehensive subject-matter index, which allows the readers to find the text of the instruments on the topic of their interest easily and quickly
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Chemical Weapons Convention
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Interpretation
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About this book
The 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 authorities responsible 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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: OPCW: The Legal Texts
Editors: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-044-2
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-043-5Published: 18 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-046-6Due: 08 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-044-2Published: 03 December 2014
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XXII, 783
Topics: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, International Criminal Law
