Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00434:schedule:3:p24
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00434
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 3 (pt 24/95)
Character Range: 323074–326067

the destruction period;
(c) for each existing or planned chemical weapons destruction facility:
(i) name and location; and
(ii) the types and approximate quantities of chemical weapons, and the type (for example, nerve agent or blister agent) and approximate quantity of chemical fill, to be destroyed;
(d) the plans and programmes for training personnel for the operation of destruction facilities;
(e) the national standards for safety and emissions that the destruction facilities must satisfy;
(f) information on the development of new methods for destruction of chemical weapons and on the improvement of existing methods;
(g) the cost estimates for destroying the chemical weapons; and
(h) any issues which could adversely impact on the national destruction programme.

B. MEASURES TO SECURE THE STORAGE FACILITY AND STORAGE FACILITY PREPARATION

7. Not later than when submitting its declaration of chemical weapons, a State Party shall take such measures as it considers appropriate to secure its storage facilities and shall prevent any movement of its chemical weapons out of the facilities, except their removal for destruction.
8. A State Party shall ensure that chemical weapons at its storage facilities are configured to allow ready access for verification in accordance with paragraphs 37 to 49.
9. While a storage facility remains closed for any movement of chemical weapons out of the facility other than their removal for destruction, a State Party may continue at the facility standard maintenance activities, including standard maintenance of chemical weapons; safety monitoring and physical security activities; and preparation of chemical weapons for destruction.
10. Maintenance activities of chemical weapons shall not include:
(a) replacement of agent or of munition bodies;
(b) modification of the original characteristics of munitions, or parts or components thereof.
11. All maintenance activities shall be subject to monitoring by the Technical Secretariat.

C. DESTRUCTION

Principles and methods for destruction of chemical weapons
12. "Destruction of chemical weapons" means a process by which chemicals are converted in an essentially irreversible way to a form unsuitable for production of chemical weapons, and which in an irreversible manner renders munitions and other devices unusable as such.
13. Each State Party shall determine how it shall destroy chemical weapons, except that the following processes may not be used: dumping in any body of water, land burial or open‑pit burning. It shall destroy chemical weapons only at specifically designated and appropriately designed and equipped facilities.
14. Each State Party shall ensure that its chemical weapons destruction facilities are constructed and operated in a manner to ensure the destruction of the chemical weapons; and that the destruction process can be verified under the provisions of this Convention.
Order of destruction
15. The order of destruction of chemical weapons is based on the