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Decisions and recommendations
Biological and chemical weapons
The decisions and recommendations of the Review Conference included:
• The establishment of an intersessional work programme for 2012-2015
in which annual Meetings of States Parties are preceded by annual
Meetings of Experts;
• The creation of three Standing Agenda Items to be addressed at both
the Meeting of Experts and Meeting of States Parties each year from
2012-2015, namely:
• Cooperation and assistance, with a particular focus on strengthening
cooperation and assistance under article X;
• Review of developments in the field of science and technology
related to the Convention; and
• Strengthening national implementation;
• Focused annual work on:
• How to enable fuller participation in the CBMs (in 2012 and 2013);
• How to strengthen implementation of article VII, including
consideration of detailed procedures and mechanisms for the
provision of assistance and cooperation by States parties (in 2014
and 2015);
• Appointment of two Vice-Chairpersons to support the work of the Chair
to prepare and coordinate the annual work programme;
• Establishment of a database system to facilitate requests for and offers of
exchange of assistance and cooperation among States parties;
• Creation of a sponsorship programme, funded by voluntary contributions
from States parties, to support and increase the participation of
developing States parties in the meetings of the intersessional
programme;
• Revision of the CBMs, including a streamlined set of forms to make it
easier to participate in annual exchanges of information;
• Renewal of the mandate of the Implementation Support Unit, mutatis
mutandis, for the period 2012-2016. The Conference decided that, in
addition to the tasks mandated by the Sixth Review Conference, the Unit
will:
• Implement the decision to establish and administer the database
for assistance requests and offers, and facilitate the associated
exchange of information among States parties;
• Support, as appropriate, the implementation by the States parties of
the decisions and recommendations of this Review Conference.
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