The Need to Establish the Organisation for the Prohibition of Biological Weapons: A Proposal for the Future

Biological weapons are considered, by the international community, as a weapon of mass destruction. When the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was negotiated during the 1960s and early 1970s, the negotiators considered unnecessary the establishment of an international organisation to supervise the implementation of the Convention’s provisions by the State parties. It is important to highlight that since the entry into force of the BWC, the international situation has significantly changed. For this reason perhaps the moment has arrived to consider again the proposal of settling down such an organisation in the framework of the strengthening the BWC.