TY - BOOK TI - The chemical weapons convention: a commentary SN - 9780199669110 U1 - 341.735 CHE 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Chemical Weapons Covention N1 - Contents PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL ISSUES The Chemical Weapons Convention-Objectives Principles and Implementation Practice The Adoption of the Convention and the Convention and the Work of the Preparatory Commission Efforts by the OPCW to Promote Universality The Role of Civil Society and Industrial Non-State Actors in Relation to the Chemical Weapons Convention PART TWO: THE PREAMBLE TO THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION Preamble PART THREE: ARTICLES OF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION Article I: General Obligations Article II: Definitions and Criteria Article III: Declarations Article IV: Chemical Weapons Article V: Chemical Weapons Production Facilities Article VI: Activities Not Prohibited under the Convention Article VII: National Not Implementation Measures Article VIII: The Organization Article IX: Consultations Cooperation and Fact Finding Article X: Assistance and Protection against Chemical Weapons Article XI: Economic and Technological Development Article XII: Measures to Redress a Situation and to Ensure Compliance, Including Sanctions Article XIII: Relation to Other International Agreements Article XIV: Settlement of Disputes Article XV: Amendments Article XVI: Duration and Withdrawal PART FOUR: FINAL CLAUSES Article XVII: Status of the Annexes Article XVIII to XXI: Signature, Ratification, Accession, and Entry-into-Force Article XXII to XXIV: Reservations, Depositary and Authentic Texts PART FIVE: ANNEXES TO THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION PART SIX: ANNEX TO THE COMMENTARY N2 - This book provides an article-by-article commentary on the text of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and its Annexes, one of the cornerstone disarmament and arms control agreements. It requires the verified elimination of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction and their means of production by all its States Parties within established timelines, and that prohibits any activities to develop or otherwise acquire such weapons. Cross-cutting chapters alongside the detailed commentary, by those intimately involved in the development of the Convention, assess the history of the efforts to prohibit chemical weapons, the adoption of the Convention and the work of the Preparatory Commission, the entry into force of the Convention to the Second Review Conference, and the need for a new approach for the governance of chemical weapons ER -