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BIS administers the industry compliance program for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty that bans the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons among its signatories and provides for an extensive verification regime to ensure adherence to its terms. BIS also actively engages other CWC State Parties and the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to ensure that the provisions of the CWC are being implemented in a rigorous, analytically sound, and equitable manner among all State Parties.
The Bureau of Industry and Security recently hosted a ceremony marking the completion of 100 industry inspections under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), a milestone in the on-site verification of non-proliferation. Assistant Secretary Christopher Wall (right) presents a commemorative plaque noting the achievement to Julius Kozma of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. (Details)
BIS administers the industry compliance program for the U.S. Additional Protocol (AP), a bilateral agreement between the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that supplements provisions of the U.S. - IAEA Safeguards Agreement. The Additional Protocol, signed in 1998, broadens IAEA access to include all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle through declaration and complementary access provisions.