How do the Technical Secretariat and their inspectors protect sensitive or proprietary information?
The CWC’s verification regime seeks a balance between the need for inspectors to have enough access to detect prohibited activities and the need for countries and chemical companies to protect sensitive information. The CWC’s confidentiality rules govern the data monitoring and inspection process. (See the sections on Data Monitoring Requirements, Routine Inspections, and Challenge Inspections for specific requirements of the CWC.) These guidelines are articulated generally in the CWC’s Confidentiality Annex and more specifically in the confidentiality policy passed by the Conference of States Parties at its first meeting in May 1997. The Technical Secretariat is obligated to safeguard all confidential or proprietary information derived from data declarations and its monitoring activities at civilian and military facilities, just as CWC members are obligated to treat confidentially any information that the inspectorate supplies to them. The Technical Secretariat established a four-tier
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