Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act No. 108 of 1996)

Notices

Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction

Annex on Implementation and Verification ("Verification Annex")

Part V : Destruction of Chemical Weapons Production Facilities and its Verification pursuant to Article V

A. Declarations

Declarations of chemical weapons production facilities

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1.	The declaration of chemical weapons production facilities by a State Party pursuant to Article III, paragraph 1(c)(ii), shall contain for each facility:

(a)	The name of the facility, the names of the owners, and the names of the companies or enterprises operating the facility since 1 January 1946;

(b)	The precise location of the facility, including the address, location of the complex, location of the facility within the complex including the specific building and structure number, if any;

(c)	A statement whether it is a facility for the manufacture of chemicals that are defined as chemical weapons or whether it is a facility for the filling of chemical weapons, or both;

(d)	The date when the construction of the facility was completed and the periods during which any modifications to the facility were made, including the installation of new or modified equipment, that significantly changed the production process characteristics of the facility;

(e)	Information on the chemicals defined as chemical weapons that were manufactured at the facility; the munitions, devices, and containers that were filled at the facility; and the dates of the beginning and cessation of such manufacture or filling:

(i)

For chemicals defined as chemical weapons that were manufactured at the facility, such information shall be expressed in terms of the specific types of chemicals manufactured, indicating the chemical name in accordance with the current International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) nomenclature, structural formula, and the Chemical Abstracts Service registry number, if assigned, and in terms of the amount of each chemical expressed by weight of chemical in tonnes;

(ii)	For munitions, devices and containers that were filled at the facility, such information shall be expressed in terms of the specific type of chemical weapons filled and the weight of the chemical fill per unit;

(f)	The production capacity of the chemical weapons production facility:

(i)

For a facility where chemical weapons were manufactured, production capacity shall be expressed in terms of the annual quantitative potential for manufacturing a specific substance on the basis of the technological process actually used or, in the case of processes not actually used, planned to be used at the facility;

(ii)	For a facility where chemical weapons were filled, production capacity shall be expressed in terms of the quantity of chemical that the facility can fill into each specific type of chemical weapon a year;

(g)	For each chemical weapons production facility that has not been destroyed, a description of the facility including:

(i)	A site diagram;

(ii)	A process flow diagram of the facility; and

(iii)

An inventory of buildings at the facility, and specialized equipment at the facility and of any spare parts for such equipment;

(h)	The present status of the facility, stating:

(i)	The date when chemical weapons were last produced at the facility;

(ii)	Whether the facility has been destroyed, including the date and manner of its destruction; and

(iii)

Whether the facility has been used or modified before entry into force of this Convention for an activity not related to the production of chemical weapons, and if so, information on what modifications have been made, the date such non-chemical weapons related activity began and the nature of such activity, indicating, if applicable, the kind of product;

(i)	A specification of the measures that have been taken by the State Party for closure of, and a description of the measures that have been or will be taken by the State Party to inactivate the facility;

(j)	A description of the normal pattern of activity for safety and security at the inactivated facility; and

(k)	A statement as to whether the facility will be converted for the destruction of chemical weapons and, if so, the dates for such conversions.