Translation of "Convention on Biological and Toxin Weapons " (English → French) :

The overall objective of this Decision is to support, through the projects described below, the States Parties’ implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540 and other related Resolutions, the Convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction (BTWC) as well as the International Health Regulations (IHR), and specifically those aspects that relate to the safety and security of biological a ...[+++]gents and toxins in laboratories and other facilities, including the period of transit from one place to another, in order to prevent natural, accidental, or deliberate release of biological materials and to better control infections.

In the EU’s view, practical steps should, inter alia, promote universal adherence to and compliance with all multilateral agreements and instruments in the field of non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament, such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation as well as the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguards ...[+++]Agreements and the Additional Protocol.

These include, inter alia, the principles reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, including the following: protection of human dignity and human life, protection of personal data and privacy, as well as animals and the environment in accordance with Community law and the latest versions of relevant international conventions and codes of conduct, e.g. the Helsinki Declaration, the Convention of the Council of Europe on Human Rights and Bio-medicine signed in Oviedo on 4 April 1997 and its Additional Protocols, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Universal Declaration on the human genome and human rights adopted by U ...[+++]NESCO, UN Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the relevant World Health Organisation (WHO) resolutions.

Comprehensive lists of controlled items were developed in the Regimes as only one international treaty of non-proliferation (the Chemical Weapons Convention) lists the dual-use items and technologies subject to controls, whilst the other treaties or arrangements (Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, the Non Proliferation Treaty, the Hague Code o ...[+++]f Conduct on Missiles) do not list any dual-use technologies that can be used for WMD end uses.

These include, inter alia, the principles reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, including the following: protection of human dignity and human life, protection of personal data and privacy, as well as animals and the environment in accordance with Community law and the latest versions of relevant international conventions and codes of conduct, e.g. the Helsinki Declaration, the Convention of the Council of Europe on Human Rights and Bio-medicine signed in Oviedo on 4 April 1997 and its Additional Protocols, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Universal Declaration on the human genome and human rights adopted by U ...[+++]NESCO, UN Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the relevant World Health Organisation (WHO) resolutions.

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (afterwards BTWC) was signed simultaneously in London, Moscow and Washington on 10 April 1972 and came into force on 26 March 1975. It prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, acquisition or retention of microbial or other biological agents of types and in quantities not justified for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes.