The references on this page are for documents arising from the Working Group to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention. A brief note on cataloguing nomenclature is provided below the list of documents. A fuller guide to the structure is in preparation.
PLEASE NOTE: this page is still under development and the cataloguing system is still being built and so does not yet contain all relevant references from the holdings in the collections. There may also be a delay between new documents being published and being included here.
The Ninth BWC Review Conference (2022) decided that the Working Group should been overseen by an annual Meeting of States Parties and the page Biological Weapons Convention Working Group plus associated Meetings of States Parties lists documents from both series of meetings.
The official websites for the BWC Working Group are:
- First Session (15-16 March 2023)
- Second Session (7-18 August 2023)
- Third Session (4-8 December 2023)
- Fourth Session (19-23 August 2024)
- Fifth Session (2-13 December 2024)
- Sixth Session (11-22 August 2025)
- Seventh Session (8-12 December 2025)
- Eighth Session (9-13 February 2026)
- Ninth Session (17-21 August 2026)
- Tenth Session (7-11 December 2026)
Richard Guthrie’s BWPP daily reports can be found at https://www.cbw-events.org.uk/bwc-rep.html.
REMINDER: the following document list is from a data management system that is still under development and the catalogue is NOT comprehensive at this point.
Total Records Found: 127, showing 50 per page
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2026-0827 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-CRP.1-Rev.7 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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33
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2026-0825 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-INF.1 List of participants
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37
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2026-0821 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-CRP.1-Rev.6 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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33
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2026-0820 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-CRP.1-Rev.5 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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32
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2026-0819 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-CRP.1-Rev.4 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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32
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2026-0818 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-CRP.1-Rev.3 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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32
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2026-0817 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-CRP.1-Rev.2 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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31
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2026-0806 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-CRP.1-Rev.1 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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31
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2026-0424 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-9-CRP.1 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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31
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2026-0421 {IR} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-9-WP.1 Prohibition of Attacks on Peaceful Medical and Biological Facilities
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4
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2026-0305 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-8-INF.1 List of participants
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23
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2026-0305 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-8-1 Procedural report of the eighth session of the Working Group
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/8/1
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3
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2026-0213 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-8-CRP.1-Rev.3 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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31
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2026-0212 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-8-CRP.1-Rev.2 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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31
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2026-0207 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-8-CRP.1-Rev.1 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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30
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2026-0116 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-8-CRP.1 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on the Strengthening of the Convention
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30
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2025-1219 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-7-1 Procedural report of the seventh session of the Working Group
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/7/1
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4
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2025-1217 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-7-INF.1 List of participants
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34
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2025-1212 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-7-CRP.2 Draft procedural report of the seventh session of the Working Group on Strengthening the Convention
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4
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2025-1212 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-7-CRP.1-Rev.1 Revised draft final report of the Working Group on Strengthening the Convention
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33
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2025-1201 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-7-CRP.1 Draft final report of the Working Group on Strengthening the Convention
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29
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2025-0903 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-6-INF.1-Corr.1 List of participants
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1
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2025-0826 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-6-INF.1 List of participants
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29
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2025-0826 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-6-1 Procedural report of the sixth session
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/6/1
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5
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2025-0822 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-6-1 Procedural report -advance version-
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5
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2025-0820 {CL} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6-WP.6 Proposal for the design of a plan of measures relating to Verification and Compliance with the Convention
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/6/WP.6
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5
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2025-0820 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Cost Estimates – Overall
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17
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2025-0819 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Cost Estimates – National implementation
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7
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2025-0818 {CL} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6-WP.5 Proposal for the design of a plan to strengthen measures related to S and T developments relevant to the Convention with a focus on biosafety bio custody and biosecurity
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/6/WP.5
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6
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2025-0818 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Cost Estimates – Compliance and verification
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5
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2025-0815 {ZA} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Statement — Confidence building and transparency
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4
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2025-0815 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Presentation — CBMs under the BWC -2025-0814-
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24
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2025-0815 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Cost Estimates – Confidence building and transparency
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8
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2025-0814 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Cost Estimates – S and T draft measures plus S and T Mechanism
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13
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2025-0813 {ZA} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Statement — Scientific and Technological Developments
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5
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2025-0813 {MZ} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Statement — all topics
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3
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2025-0812 {UG} {NAM} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Statement — all topics
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4
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2025-0812 {PS} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Statement — International Cooperation and Assistance
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2
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2025-0812 {LA} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Statement — International Cooperation and Assistance
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2
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2025-0812 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Cost Estimates – ICA draft measures plus ICA Mechanism
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7
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2025-0812 {AU} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6-WP.4 Article X report — Update on Australia-s regional capacity building – health security initiatives for the Indo-Pacific
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/6/WP.4
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2025-0811 {RU} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6-WP.3 The Fifth International Scientific and Practical Conference — Global Biosecurity Challenges – Problems and Solutions
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/6/WP.3
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2
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2025-0811 {RU} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6-WP.2 Fundamental principles of the future Mechanism for Review of Scientific and Technological Achievements Relevant to the BWC
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/6/WP.2
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3
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2025-0811 {NL} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Statement — International Cooperation and Assistance
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6
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2025-0808 {RU} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-6-WP.1 Fundamental operational principles of the future international cooperation and assistance mechanism under Article X of the BWC
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/6/WP.1
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3
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2025-0807 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-6-CRP.1 Draft specific and effective measures including possible legally-binding measures to strengthen and institutionalize the BWC in all its aspects
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9
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2025-0716 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6-2 Background information document on Measures on confidence-building and transparency
Weblink
https://undocs.org/BWC/WG/6/2
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18
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2024-1218 {BWC} [WG] BWC-WG-5-INF.1 List of participants
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32
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2024-1216 {EU} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-5-WP.20 Position of the EU and its Member States on organizational institutional and financial arrangements
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4
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2024-1216 {EU} [BWC] [WG] BWC-WG-5-WP.19 Position of the EU and its Member States on confidence-building and transparency
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2
The cataloguing nomenclature is based around generating a title field that embodies enough information for a user to identify any document through a string of characters. The title field, at the basic level, contains three key elements — a date code, a source code and the document title.
- Date code = the form 2003-0901 which represents 1 September 2003, for example.
- Source code = a code or codes in brackets, e.g, {BWC}. Two letter codes for internet domains are used to indicate countries, so that a document or statement submitted by Singapore to the BWC would be coded {SG} [BWC], for example. When an entity has a document reference system, this will be reflected in the title field between the source code and the document title. As many IT systems cannot handle “/” characters in many contexts, these are replaced by “-” in the title field such that document BWC/WG/5/WP.4 is rendered as BWC-WG-5-WP.4 in the catalogue.
- Document title = fairly self explanatory but may be abbreviated for space.
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