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ORGANISATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS

REGIONAL TRAINING COURSE FOR CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES OF STATES PARTIES IN ASIA ON TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE TRANSFERS REGIME OF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION New Delhi, India, 10-13 December 2012. CWC Transfer Provisions. Declarations Branch/Verification Division.

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ORGANISATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS

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  1. REGIONAL TRAINING COURSE FOR CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES OF STATES PARTIES IN ASIA ON TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE TRANSFERS REGIMEOF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION New Delhi, India, 10-13 December 2012 CWC Transfer Provisions Declarations Branch/Verification Division ORGANISATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS

  2. Import and Export provisions of the CWC

  3. Objectives • By the end of this session participants would: • Be acquainted with CWC notification and reporting requirements for imports and exports of scheduled chemicals • Be aware of restrictions on trade in scheduled chemicals with States not Party to CWC • Be familiar with statistics of trade in scheduled chemicals in Asia Note - you will need these provisions and guidelines in the exercises to come

  4. Article I Prohibitions 1. Each State Party to this Convention undertakesnever under any circumstances: (a)To develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile or retain chemical weapons, ortransfer, directly or indirectly, chemical weapons to anyone; (b)To use chemical weapons; • To engage in any military preparations to use chemical weapons; • To assist, encourage or induce, in any way, anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention. ...

  5. General Schedule 1 Provisions • Shallnotproduce, acquire, retain, transferor use S1 chemicalsunless: • for research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective purposes only • types and quantities are strictly limited to those justified for that purposes • max aggregate of 1 tonne of all S1 chemicals stored at any time in State Party or acquired in any 1 year

  6. S1 Transfer Provisions • A state party may transfer schedule 1 chemicals outside its territory onlyto another state party and only for research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective purposes • S1 chemicals transferred shall not be retransferred to a third state

  7. S1 Transfer Provisions (cont.) • Both States Parties shall notify Technical Secretariat 30 days before transfer • exemption for 5mg or less of Saxitoxin for medical/diagnostic purposes (test kits for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) – notification at time of transfer • Each state party shall make a detailed annual declaration regarding transfers during the previous year. • For each transfer: details of chemical, quantities, recipient and purpose (end use).

  8. S2 Aggregate National Data • Annual declaration of AND for the previous calendar year on the quantities produced, processed, consumed, imported and exported of each Schedule 2 chemical • plus quantitative specification of import and export for each country involved

  9. S3 Aggregate National Data • Annual declaration of AND for the previous calendar year on the quantities produced, imported and exported of each Schedule 3 chemical • plus quantitative specification of import and export for each country involved.

  10. Guidelines for Aggregate National Data (AND) DeclarationsC-7/DEC.14 dated 10 October 2002 • AND shall include activity by natural and legal persons transferring a declarable chemical (includes traders – not limited to declarable plant sites) • A Sch 2 and Sch 3 chemical shall be included if the total AND for the year for that activity (e.g. import or export) is more than the threshold specified in Verification Annex for that chemical • 1 kg for S2A* (BZ) • 100 kg for S2A • 1 tonne for S2B • 30 tonnes for S3 • E.g. if total imports of a S2 or S3 chemical in a year for the country as a whole (not individual shipments or imports by a single company) goes above threshold must declare

  11. Low Concentration Limits for Declarations of Schedule 2/3 • Chemicals mixtures containing 30% or less of a Schedule 2B or 3 chemical are not subject to any declarations obligations (C-V/DEC.19, May 2000) • More complex rules for chemicals mixtures containing Schedule 2A or 2A* chemical but for import/export, mixtures containing equal or less than 1% are not subject to any declarations obligations (C-14/DEC.4, December 2009)

  12. Transfers to States Not Party

  13. Rest of World Angola Egypt Somalia South Sudan States Not Party to CWC(as at 30 November 2012) • Asia • Israel • Myanmar • Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea • Syria

  14. Summary of Trade Restrictions with States Not Party • Schedule 1 • Total ban on transfer of any quantity to States Not Party, NO exceptions • Schedule 2 • Ban on transfers of any quantity to or from States Not Party with some exceptions • Schedule 3 • No ban currently but End Use Certificate required for transfers to States Not Party with some exceptions

  15. S2 Transfers to States Not Party (C-V/DEC.16, May 2000) • Schedule 2 chemicals shall only be transferred to or received from States Parties (as of 29 April 2000) except • products containing one percent or less of a Schedule 2A or 2A* chemical; • products containing 10 percent or less of a Schedule 2B chemical • products identified as consumer goods packaged for retail sale for personal use or packaged for individual use

  16. S3 Transfers to States not Party • End-Use Certificate (EUC) required for transfers to States not Party from “competent government authority” in the State not Party (not importer) • EUC should state for the transferred chemical: • That they will only be used for purposes not prohibited under the Convention • That they will not be retransferred • Their types and quantities • Their end-use(s) • The name(s) and address(es) of the end-user(s) • Additional measures possible in future (last discussed at 2nd Review Conference in April 2008 but just reaffirmed need for EUC).

  17. S3 Transfers to States not Party NO EUC required for (C-VI/DEC.10, May 2001): • Products containing 30 % or less of a Schedule 3 chemical • Products identified as consumer goods packaged for retail sale for personal use, or packaged for individual use

  18. SOME STATISTICS

  19. Quantities Imported/Exported in 2011 320 000 t 2.2 g 4 700 t

  20. Most traded Schedule 2 chemicals

  21. Most traded Schedule 3 chemicals

  22. Trade in Scheduled Chemicals in Asia

  23. Trade in Scheduled Chemicals in Asia in 2011 • A number of States Parties in Asia produce small amount of Schedule 1 chemicals; only 1 transfer took place in 2011 • Trade in Schedule 2 chemicals - ~ 1300 tonnes (~28 % of world trade of S2 chemicals (4 700 t)) • Trade in Schedule 3 chemicals - ~ 111 200 tonnes (~35 % of world trade of S3 chemicals (320 000 t))

  24. Schedule 2 and 3 Trade in Asia in 2011 • 27 States Parties in Asia reported to be involved in S2/S3 trade in 2011

  25. Trade in Schedule Chemicals in Asia(in tonnes) 25 25

  26. Trade in S2 Chemicals declarad in Asia in 2011

  27. Trade in S3 Chemicals declarad in Asia in 2011 27

  28. Thank You Questions?

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