[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR710.3]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
  CHAPTER VII--BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 710_GENERAL INFORMATION AND OVERVIEW OF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS 
CONVENTION REGULATIONS (CWCR)--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  710.3  Purposes of the Convention and CWCR.

    (a) Purposes of the Convention. (1) The Convention imposes upon the 
United States, as a State Party, certain declaration, inspection, and 
other obligations. In addition, the United States and other States 
Parties to the Convention undertake never under any circumstances to:
    (i) Develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, or retain 
chemical weapons, or transfer, directly or indirectly, chemical weapons 
to anyone;
    (ii) Use chemical weapons;
    (iii) Engage in any military preparations to use chemical weapons; 
or
    (iv) Assist, encourage or induce, in any way, anyone to engage in 
any activity prohibited by the Convention.
    (2) One objective of the Convention is to assure States Parties that 
lawful activities of chemical producers and users are not converted to 
unlawful activities related to chemical weapons. To achieve this 
objective and to give States Parties a mechanism to verify compliance, 
the Convention requires the United States and all other States Parties 
to submit declarations concerning chemical production, consumption, 
processing and other activities, and to permit international inspections 
within their borders.
    (b) Purposes of the Chemical Weapons Convention Regulations. To 
fulfill the United States' obligations under the Convention, the CWCR 
(parts 710 through 722 of this subchapter) prohibit certain activities, 
and compel the submission of information from all facilities in the 
United States, except for Department of Defense and Department of Energy 
facilities and facilities of other U.S. Government agencies that notify 
the USNA of their decision to be excluded from the CWCR on activities, 
including exports and imports of scheduled chemicals and certain 
information regarding unscheduled discrete organic chemicals as 
described in parts 712 through 715 of this subchapter. U.S. Government 
facilities are those owned by or leased to the U.S Government, including 
facilities that are contractor-operated. The CWCR also require access 
for on-site inspections and monitoring by the OPCW, as described in 
parts 716 and 717 of this subchapter.