This page contains links to official documents related to the Second Review Conference issued by the OPCW and by other international organizations, as well as by governments, industry and NGOs. It will be updated as and when new documents become available.
Second CWC Review Conference
National Statements
- African Group
- Albania
- Algeria English | français
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada English | français
- China 中文 | English
- Colombia
- Cuba, on behalf of the States Parties of the Non-Aligned Movement to the Chemical Weapons Convention and China
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovenia, on behalf of the European Union
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Switzerland
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- United States of America
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
Decisions
RC-2/DEC.1: Decision: Attendance by Non-Signatory States
RC-2/DEC.3: Decision: Attendance by Non-Governmental Organisations
RevCon Documents
Provisional Agenda for the Second Review Conference, 11 March 2008 (RC-2/1)
Message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, 7 April 2008 (RC-2/2)
Report of the Second Review Conference, 18 April 2008 (RC-2/4)
INF Documents
Tentative Programme of Work of the Second Review Conference, 28 March 2008 (RC-2/INF.1)
Provisional List of Participants of the Second Review Conference, 14 April 2008 (RC-2/INF.2)
DG Papers
Report of the Scientific Advisory Board on Developments in Science and Technology, 28 February 2008 (RC-2/DG.1 and RC-2/DG.1/Corr.1)
Opening Statement by the Director-General to the Second Review Conference, 7 April 2008 (RC-2/DG.2)
TS Reports
Note by the Technical Secretariat: Review of the Operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention Since the First Review Conference, 31 March 2008 (RC-2/S/1)
National Papers
RC-2/NAT.1: The People’s Republic of China: Report on the Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention in China
RC-2/NAT.2: The People’s Republic of China: Position Paper: Challenge Inspection
RC-2/NAT.3: The People’s Republic of China: Position Paper: Verification Issues
RC-2/NAT.4: The People’s Republic of China: Position Paper: Chemical Weapons Abandoned by Japan in China
RC-2/NAT.5: Statement by Dr. José A. Díaz Duque, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of the Republic of Cuba
RC-2/NAT.6: Australia: Sequential Inspections
RC-2/NAT.8: Netherlands: Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs
RC-2/NAT.9: Switzerland: Inclusion of Data on Non-Scheduled Chemicals in the OPCW Central Analytical Database to Facilitate Comprehensive Chemical Weapons Analysis
RC-2/NAT.10: Switzerland: Article X: Assistance and Co-Operation Against Chemical Weapons
RC-2/NAT.11: Switzerland: Risk Assessment of the Different Types of Plant Sites/Facilities Under Article VI of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
RC-2/NAT.12: Switzerland: Riot Control and Incapacitating Agents Under the Chemical Weapons Convention
RC-2/NAT.13: Slovenia, on behalf of the European Union
RC-2/NAT.16: The Netherlands: Connecting with the Wider Environment for Better Operation of the Convention
RC-2/NAT.17: Position Paper by the Member States of the NAM that are States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention and China
RC-2/NAT.19/Rev.1: Japan: Promotion of Non-proliferation of Chemical Weapons
RC-2/NAT.20: Japan: Japan’s Efforts Toward Early Destruction of ACW in China
OPCW
Political Declaration of the First CWC Review Conference, 9 May 2003 (RC-1/3)
Report of the First CWC Review Conference, 9 May 2003 (RC-1/5)
On 1 February 2008, the OPCW Technical Secretariat issued a note on the Academic Forum and Industry and Protection Forum which had been held in 2007 as part of the 10th CWC anniversary celebrations. While the proceedings of both meetings will be published in due course, the note says that:
Given that the recommendations and conclusions of both forums are relevant to the objectives of the upcoming Second [Review Conference], the Secretariat has prepared this Note to inform the States Parties in a timely fashion of the discussions that took place and the observations that emerged.
The note (S/674/2008 ) is available here.
EU
IUPAC
In February 2006, the OPCW Scientific Advisory Board asked the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemsitry (IUPAC) to support its preparations for the Second CWC Review Conference (as IUPAC had done for the First Review Conference). In April 2007, IUPAC and the OPCW therefore organized a workshop in Zagreb, Croatia on “Impact of Advances in Science and Technology on the Chemical Weapons Convention.” More information and the papers presented at the workshop are available here. The final report of the Zagreb workshop has now been published as:
Mahdi Balali-Mood, Pieter S. Steyn, Lev K. Sydnes and Ralf Trapp, “Impact of Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention (IUPAC Technical Report)”, Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 80, no. 1 (January 2008), pp. 175-200.
The report has contributed to the Scientific Advisory Board’s work on the Review Conference and has been submitted to CWC states parties.
In 2006 IUPAC published a Technical Report on education, outreach and codes of conduct:
Graham S Pearson and Peter Mahaffy, “Education, Outreach and Codes of Conduct to Further the Norms and Obligations of the Chemical Weapons Convention”, Pure and Applied Chemistry, vol. 78 no. 11 (November 2006), pp. 2169-2192.
Industry
International Council of Chemical Associations, “Paper for 2nd Review Conference on the Chemical Weapons Convention”, 11 June 2007.
BWC
Sixth BWC Review Conference, Final Document, 8 December 2006 (BWC/CONF.VI/6)
