CYIL 2012

JAN ONDŘEJ CYIL 3 ȍ2012Ȏ Among the basic prerequisites of the efficient functioning of the implementation and control mechanism is the providing of information. Each State Party shall, according to Article 7, report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations as soon as practicable, and in any event not later than 180 days after the entry into force of this Convention for that State Party. The report should, apart from other facts, also contain the total of all stockpiled anti-personnel mines owned or possessed by the state, or under its jurisdiction or control. The report shall also include the location of all mined areas that contain, or are suspected to contain, anti-personnel mines. The states should also, according to Article 7, paragraph 1 (c) include a breakdown of the type, quantity and, if possible, lot numbers of each type of anti-personnel mine in each mined area, and when they were emplaced. The report shall also contain, according to Article 7, paragraph 1 (f), the status of programs for the destruction of anti personnel mines, including details of the methods which will be used in destruction, the location of all destruction sites. T he Meeting of the States Parties was created for the implementation of the Convention . These meetings should take place regularly. All states parties to the Convention can attend the meetings. States not parties to this Convention, as well as the United Nations, other relevant international organizations or institutions, regional organizations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and relevant non-governmental organizations, may be invited to attend these meetings as observers (Article 11, paragraph 4). The Meetings can play an important role during consultations which take place between states parties. If one or more states parties wish to clarify and seek to resolve questions relating to compliance with the provisions of this Convention by another state party, it may submit, through the Secretary-General of the United Nations, a request for clarification of that matter. Each state party shall refrain from unfounded requests for clarification, care being taken to avoid abuse (Article 8, paragraph 2). If further clarification is required, the Meeting of the States Parties or the Special Meeting of the States Parties shall authorize a fact-finding mission and decide on its mandate by a majority of States Parties present and voting. These missions represent an equivalent of the challenge inspections according to the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. As for the Chemical Weapons Convention, the verification conducted on the basis of the Convention has international character. It presupposes, however, also domestic measures by each of the states parties of the Convention. The verification measures provided for in the Convention are carried out by the Technical Secretariat (Article 8, paragraph 37) through inspectors and inspection assistants, proposed for designation (Part II A, paragraph 3, Verification Annex). The Technical Secretaiat is one of the main bodies of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The Organization was created to achieve the object and purpose of the Chemical Weapons Convention. The Organization has three main organs: the Conference of the States Parties, the Executive Council, and the Technical Secretariat. The main

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