These references are taken from the combined SHIB-CBW Events cataloguing system and are for documents arising from the Working Group to strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention. The Ninth BWC Review Conference (2022) decided that the Working Group should been overseen by an annual Meeting of States Parties (MSP) and this page lists catalogued documents from both series of meetings.
The page Biological Weapons Convention Working Group lists documents from the Working Group only.
A brief note on cataloguing nomenclature is provided below the list of documents. A fuller guide to the structure is in preparation.
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PLEASE NOTE: the cataloguing system is under development and 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 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) and Eighth Session (9-13 February 2026). The official websites for the MSPs are: 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Total Records Found: 191, showing 25 per page
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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
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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
Title
2025-0815 {BWC} [ISU] [WG] BWC-WG-6 Cost Estimates – Confidence building and transparency
Sides
8
Title
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
Title
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
Title
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Sides
18
Title
2024-1220 {BWC} [MSP] BWC-MSP-2024-INF.1 List of participants
Sides
32
Title
2024-1219 {OM} [BWC] [MSP] BWC-MSP-2024-WP.20 -general debate statement-
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1
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2024-1218 {TH} [BWC] [MSP] BWC-MSP-2024-WP.24 -submitted general debate statement-
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2
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2024-1218 {JP} [BWC] [MSP] BWC-MSP-2024-WP.13 -submitted general debate statement-
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2
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2024-1218 {DZ} [BWC] [MSP] BWC-MSP-2024-WP.23 -general debate statement- -francais-
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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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