News related to national implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention
OPCW Director-General Visits Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao Sar) and Guang Dong Province
13 June 2009Officials from the Ministry of Defence of China provided a presentation and an update on the activities (discovery and excavations) dealing with Japanese abandoned chemical weapons in Guang Dong Province.
OPCW Director-General Opens Regional Workshop in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
11 June 2009Pfirter: "The verification regime of the Convention requires States Parties to track the import and export of scheduled chemicals and report such data to the OPCW. Such a measure, when applied earnestly by all States Parties,...
National Authorities of Eastern Europe Meet in Bulgaria
29 May 200936 participants from 23 States Parties attended
OPCW Director-General Visits Bulgaria
29 May 2009Opens a regional meeting jointly with the Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy, H.E. Mr Petar Dimitrov
OPCW Releases Scheduled Chemicals Database
29 May 2009Contains information on over 1,300 scheduled chemicals declared to the OPCW, as well as all scheduled chemicals that had been assigned CAS Registry Numbers, amounting to an additional 28,000 chemicals.