Section J

1. Declarations under Section J

Section J of the Declarations Handbook applies to the declaration requirements for any facility or establishment under a State Party’s ownership or possession, or located in any place under its jurisdiction or control, and that has been designed, constructed or used since 1 January 1946 primarily for the development of chemical weapons. Such facilities shall include, inter alia, laboratories and test and evaluation sites, in accordance with paragraphs 1(d) of Article III of the Convention.

2. Declaration requirements and their deadlines

In its declaration, the State Party shall specify the precise location, nature and general scope of activities of each declared facility or establishment. The declaration shall be submitted to the Organisation not later than 30 days after the Convention enters into force for the State Party.

The following CWC definition is important when assessing whether a facility or establishment must be declared under Article III(1)(d) of the Convention:

Chemical Weapons means the following, together or separately:

Instructions in regard to data formats:

1. The page header

The page header should be completed by the State Party submitting the declaration:

Country Code	The name of the State Party submitting the declaration must be identified on every page of the document. Use the appropriate ISO 3166 code presented in Appendix 1.
J	Section J of the Declaration handbook
Page of n Pages	Individual page number of document comprising total pages (e.g. 1 of 2)
CCYY–MM–DD	The date of submission of the document should be inserted on every page, in the form year–month–day (e.g. 1998-03-11).

2. Yes-No Questions must always be answered.

3. Geographical co-ordinates are to be declared to the nearest second according to the following formats:

Latitude: 00 (degree)/00(minute)/00(second)/0 (North or South)

Example: "55/45/28/N"

Longitude: 000 (degree)/00(minute)/00(second)/0 (East or West)

Example: "005/32/53/E"

Co-ordinates should be associated with a specific feature related to the location (e.g., entrance of a site, road intersection). The geographic reference system used should be specified.

4. A site diagram for each facility is to be attached showing:

1.1. Form OF 1.0: Identification declaration: “Other Facilities” is to be used by a State Party:

The following information should be provided on form OF 1.0:

State Party submitting:	The name of the State Party submitting the declaration
Date of submission:	The date the declaration is submitted to the Secretariat
Does your State have	A statement by the State Party as to whether or not it has “Other Facilities” to be declared under Article III(1)(d) of the Convention
Highest confidentiality	Level of classification to be assigned, in accordance with the OPCW Policy of Confidentiality, to the information contained in the declaration

1.2. Form OF 2.0: Declaration on “Other Facilities” pursuant to subparagraph 1(d) of Article III of the Convention is to be used by a State Party to submit information on “Other Facilities” as required under subparagraph 1(d) of Article III of the Chemical Weapons Convention. A separate form should be completed for each facility declared

Topic #:	For ease of reference, the data elements in the first column of the form are numbered from 1 - 5.
Classification:	The classification category assigned to each data element should be indicated in the second column. This field may be left blank (the data element will then be regarded as unclassified), or the letters R, P or H may be inserted to indicate that the given data element is to be regarded as OPCW Restricted, OPCW Protected, or OPCW Highly Protected, respectively.
Facility name:	The full name of the facility that is being declared.
Facility code:	The code that will uniquely identify the declared facility even if the name is changed. Preferably, the ISO 3166 code for the State should be used as the unique country identifier (e.g. HUN) together with a unique plant site number (e.g. HUN0034).
Precise location of the facility:	Narrative, attachments or any other means can be used to specify the precise location of the facility, providing, at a minimum, the address, the location of the complex, location of the facility within the complex, if applicable, including the specific building and structure number, if any. The location may also be expressed by geographical co-ordinates and a site diagram
Nature of the facility:	Use the check boxes provided, attachments or any other means to describe the nature of the facility.
General scope of activities at the facility:	Narrative, attachments or any other means can be used to describe the general scope of activities at the facility. The information may be expressed in terms of the length of time (period) the facility was/has been operating, its present status, a diagram showing the layout of the facility, process diagrams, the types of chemicals developed, tested or evaluated, the types of experiments conducted, etc.