Yes / The Ad Hoc Group (AHG) of the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention (BTWC) have touched from time to time on the question of the organisation
needed to implement the legally binding instrument being negotiated to strengthen the
BTWC. Now that the work of the AHG has intensified with the fleshing out of a rolling text for the legally binding instrument, the nature of the organisation is receiving more and more attention as its size and cost are likely to influence the nature and effectiveness of the regime
developed by the AHG.
This Briefing Paper considers what can be learned from existing relevant organisations,
notably the World Health Organisation (WHO) and its counterparts for animal and plant
diseases (OIE and FAO), the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on Iraq and
the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The developments thus far in the AHG deliberations are then addressed and some estimates are made for the
optimum size and cost of a BTWC rganisation. It is emphasised that these estimates are
necessarily broad as the actual size of the BTWC Organization will depend on the precise
functions and responsibilities that it is given.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/729 |
| Date | 01 1900 |
| Creators | Pearson, Graham S. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Report |
| Rights | © 1998 University of Bradford. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk). |
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