Increasing transparency in biodefence : a 2016 visit to a German military medical biodefence facility / [electronic resource] Filippa Lentzos

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"November 2016".

In 2016 Germany invited BWC states parties to visit its main military medical biodefence facility to evaluate its compliance with BWC obligations. During the visit, Germany described its biodefence activities and the related laws, regulations and practices that are in place to ensure that the activities are carried out safely, securely, responsibly and in line with the requirements of the BWC. This paper details the two-day exercise from the perspective of the author, a civil society observer invited to take part alongside the 20 state party representatives.

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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