Managing technology transfers under the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention / [electronic resource] Anna Zmorzynska and Gunnar Jeremias

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"September 2012".

The oversight and control of technology transfers and the promotion of technological development have been the subject of much debate in the context of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC). This is due to the fact that the obligations, scope, limits and management of relevant technology transfers are not specified in detail in the text of the convention.

The EU Non-Proliferation Consortium is a network of foreign policy institutions and research centres from across the EU engaged in political and security-related dialogue and discussion of measures to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems. The Consortium is managed jointly by SIPRI and three other institutes, in close cooperation with the representative of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The three institutes are the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt (HSFK/PRIF), and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.

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