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Porton Down, the Ministry of Defence's
chemical and biological research centre,
is to play a leading role in verifying that
British companies are not illegally
making or exporting chemical weapons.
But the Government plans to exempt the
Wiltshire centre from legislation making
chemical weapons illegal. The only
public scrutiny of government
departments will be through ministerial
accountability to Parliament.
The Government has taken the unusual step of publishing
draft legislation before introducing the Bill to Parliament. The
deadline for comments on the draft expires this weekend.
However experts say the legislation is not tough enough to
measure up to the international Convention on Chemical
Weapons and may lead to difficulties. Nicholas Sims, of the
London School of Economics, said "most of the elements of
national implementation of the CWC are ... absent from the
draft Bill."
Just 10 civil servants within the Department of Trade and
Industry are to be responsible for monitoring more than 500
companies and 2,000 sites which employ lethally toxic
chemicals that have a dual military-civilian use. The civil
servants will constitute the "national authority" required by
the CWC, which is supposed to keep track of the movements
of all these chemicals and to investigate any discrepancies.
Porton Down's military experts will advise and assist the
"national authority" in monitoring scientific developments
that might lead to new types of chemical weapons.
According to Professor Julian Perry Robinson of the
University of Sussex, this raises two problems. "The first is
ensuring that CBDE [Porton Down] is not unduly selective in
what it chooses to tell the national aut hority - that it does not
hold back information about, for example, some attractive
new chemical-weapons possibility." In 1975, he said, the US
Senate discovered that the CIA's Technical Services Division
had retained stocks of a toxic weapon in breach of the
Biological Weapons Convention.
The second problem was "whether Porton actually has the
requisite reach into the industrial, academic and other
worlds where there is leading- edge research".
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