Cefic – the EU chemical industry council – recently consolidated its commitment to preventing misuse of chemicals as weapons.
Stakeholders from the European chemical industry, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) technical secretariat, the national authority of France, the World Customs Organisation, the European Commission and the European Space Agency, met last month to share knowledge about the transfer of traded chemicals.
A key point discussed was the issue of transfer discrepancies in traded chemicals – a persistent problem since the entry into force of the
