Attention NGOs!

Note: The application period to attend the Conference of the States' Parties is now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied. Successful applicants will be notfied by 14 November, 2011.

The 16th Session of the Conference of the States Parties will be held from 28 November to 2 December 2011 at the World Forum Conference Centre just next door to the OPCW headquarters in The Hague. Non-governmental organizations that wish to attend the CSP must apply to the Secretariat of the Conference by 27 October 2011.

Applying NGOs should be engaged with issues of relevance to the Chemical Weapons Convention and acceptance will be decided on that basis. Permission to attend will be granted on the decision of the Conference pursuant to rule 33 of the Rules of Procedure of the CSP, with approved NGO entitled to:

1. name tags, which must be worn within the WFCC;
2. access to open meetings of the CSP plenary sessions;
3. display space for literature at designated sites; and
4. copies of official documents and statements will be distributed to NGOs during the CSP, except for Conference Room Papers and other draft documents.