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 VIII : Activities Not Prohibited under this Convention in accordance with Article VI

Regime for Schedule 3 Chemicals and Facilities related to such Chemicals

A. Declarations

Declarations of plant sites producing Schedule 3 chemicals

Purchase

3.	Initial and annual declarations are required for all plant sites that comprise one or more plants which produced during the previous calendar year or are anticipated to produce in the next calendar year more than 30 tonnes of a Schedule 3 chemical.

4.	Each State Party shall submit:

(a)	Initial declarations pursuant to paragraph 3 not later than 30 days after this Convention enters into force for it; and, starting in the following calendar year;

(b)	Annual declarations on past activities not later than 90 days after the end of the previous calendar year;

(c)	Annual declarations on anticipated activities not later than 60 days before the beginning of the following calendar year. Any such activity additionally planned after the annual declaration has been submitted shall be declared not later than five days before this activity begins.

Declarations pursuant to paragraph 3 are generally not required for mixtures containing a low concentration of a Schedule 3 chemical. They are only required, in accordance with guidelines, in such cases where the ease of recovery from the mixture of the Schedule 3 chemical and its total weight are deemed to pose a risk to the object and purpose of this Convention. These guidelines shall be considered and approved by the Conference pursuant to Article VIII, paragraph 21(i).

6.	Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 3 shall include:

(a)	The name of the plant site and the name of the owner, company, or enterprise operating it;

(b)	Its precise location including the address; and

(c)	The number of plants within the plant site which are declared pursuant to Part VII of this Annex.

7.	Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 3 shall also include, for each plant which is located within the plant site and which falls under the specifications set forth in paragraph 3, the following information:

(a)	The name of the plant and the name of the owner, company, or enterprise operating it;

(b)	Its precise location within the plant site, including the specific building or structure number, if any;

(c)	Its main activities.

8.	Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 3 shall also include the following information on each Schedule 3 chemical above the declaration threshold:

(a)	The chemical name, common or trade name used by the facility, structural formula, and Chemical Abstracts Service registry number, if assigned;

(b)

The approximate amount of production. of the chemical in the previous calendar year, or, in case of declarations on anticipated activities, anticipated for the next calendar year, expressed in the ranges: 30 to 200 tonnes, 200 to 1,000 tonnes, 1,000 to 10,000 tonnes, 10,000 to 100,000 tonnes, and above 100,000 tonnes; and

(c)	The purposes for which the chemical was or will be produced.