Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00434:schedule:3:p50
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00434
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 3 (pt 50/95)
Character Range: 392990–395907

process. This agreement shall remain in force from the beginning of the temporary conversion activity until the facility begins operation as a chemical weapons destruction facility.
60. The inspected State Party shall not remove or convert any portion of the facility, or remove or modify any seal or other agreed inspection equipment that may have been installed pursuant to this Convention until the transition agreement has been concluded.
61. Once the facility begins operation as a chemical weapons destruction facility, it shall be subject to the provisions of Part IV(A) of this Annex applicable to chemical weapons destruction facilities. Arrangements for the pre‑operation period shall be governed by the transition agreement.
62. During destruction operations the inspectors shall have access to all portions of the temporarily converted chemical weapons production facilities, including those that are not directly involved with the destruction of chemical weapons.
63. Before the commencement of work at the facility to convert it temporarily for chemical weapons destruction purposes and after the facility has ceased to function as a facility for chemical weapons destruction, the facility shall be subject to the provisions of this Part applicable to chemical weapons production facilities.

D. CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS PRODUCTION FACILITIES TO PURPOSES NOT PROHIBITED UNDER THIS CONVENTION

Procedures for requesting conversion
64. A request to use a chemical weapons production facility for purposes not prohibited under this Convention may be made for any facility that a State Party is already using for such purposes before this Convention enters into force for it, or that it plans to use for such purposes.
65. For a chemical weapons production facility that is being used for purposes not prohibited under this Convention when this Convention enters into force for the State Party, the request shall be submitted to the Director‑General not later than 30 days after this Convention enters into force for the State Party. The request shall contain, in addition to data submitted in accordance with paragraph 1(h)(iii), the following information:
(a) a detailed justification for the request;
(b) a general facility conversion plan that specifies:
(i) the nature of the activity to be conducted at the facility;
(ii) if the planned activity involves production, processing, or consumption of chemicals: the name of each of the chemicals, the flow diagram of the facility, and the quantities planned to be produced, processed, or consumed annually;
(iii) which buildings or structures are proposed to be used and what modifications are proposed, if any;
(iv) which buildings or structures have been destroyed or are proposed to be destroyed and the plans for destruction;
(v) what equipment is to be used in the facility;
(vi) what equipment has been removed and destroyed and what equipment