What international organization now implements the CWC?
An international monitoring agency, the Technical Secretariat, is responsible for data monitoring and routine on-site inspections. The Technical Secretariat would also conduct challenge inspections when necessary. The Technical Secretariat, headed by a Director-General, includes an inspector corps and other technical specialists and is divided into two units: the Verification Division and the Inspectorate. The Technical Secretariat’s main operations are conducted by two units. The Verification Division consists of four branches covering declarations, chemical demilitarization, industry verification, and policy and review. The Inspectorate division houses operations and planning personnel, as well as the actual corps of inspectors. The inspectors have backgrounds in areas ranging from chemical munitions to industrial and analytical chemistry. The Technical Secretariat’s multinational inspector corps currently stands at around two hundred, not including support and administrative personn
