Rules and procedures governing the introduction and adoption of formal alterations and variations to the treaty provisions.

Amendments

Assistance and Cooperation

Activities and actions restricted by the treaty: what state parties are not allowed to do.

Basic Prohibitions

Biological Weapons

Biological Weapons, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and the Implementation Support Unit (ISU)

Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)

Issues related to the role and involvement of civil society in the Zone realization or implementation.

Broader Representation (Including Civil Society, Gender, and Youth)

Procedures and arrangements to reduce tension and build mutual trust between parties.

Confidence Building Measures (CBMs)

Chemical Weapons

Chemical Weapons, Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)

Process and procedures aimed at determining whether a state party is fulfilling its obligations as stipulated in the treaty including examination of instances involving suspected or alleged minor and major non-compliance with the treaty's provisions.

Compliance

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

Definitions to clarify the meaning and application of treaty elements, concepts, and terms.

Definitions

The designation of the depositories (one or various states or organizations) and their functions and powers.

Depository

Procedures for requesting clarifications or initiating consultations on matters of compliance or resolving disputes over compliance or the interpretation and application of treaty’s provisions.

Dispute Settlement, Consultation, and Clarification

The period through which the treaty is binding and in force.

Duration

The manner, conditions, and date on which the treaty takes effect and comes to have legal force.

Entry into Force

Measures and procedures to redress non-compliance situations and bring back states into compliance.

Enforcement

Permissions, prohibitions, or limitations on fissile materials, uranium enrichment activities and capabilities, as well as reprocessing and plutonium separation activities and capabilities.

Fissile Materials, Enrichment, and Reprocessing

Export Controls

The structure and responsibilities of the overseeing and implementing body of the treaty.

Institutional Arrangements

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)

Means of Delivery

Measures undertaken by the state to comply with the treaty and fulfill its obligations.

National Implementation

Negative Security Assurances from NWS

The nature and extent of authority delegated to the negotiating parties. This may include the parameters for negotiations such as the objective and purpose of the negotiations, instructions, authorization, and terms of reference to the negotiating parties. 

Negotiation Mandate

Non-State Actors

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)

Nuclear Testing

Nuclear Weapons

Binding legal requirements and duties state parties are obliged to fulfill.

Obligations

Applications with purposes authorized under the treaty, including state parties’ rights and means to ensure access to these applications.

Peaceful Applications

A subsidiary instrument annexed to the treaty establishes additional rights and obligations or provides details to specific substantive obligations or ancillary matters, such as the interpretation of specific provisions. 

Protocols

The relationship between the Zone and regional security. 

Regional Security

Issues relevant to international and regional treaties, agreements or arrangements covering on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation. 

Relevant Treaties and Agreements

A statement made by a state when negotiating, accepting, signing, or acceding to the treaty whereby it intends to exclude or modify the legal effect and application of specific provisions in the treaty to the state.

Reservations

The process and objectives for reviewing the implementation, compliance, and status of the treaty after entry into force.

Review Process

The formal rules are adopted to govern the way the negotiations undertake business and adopt decisions.

Rules of Procedure

Nuclear Safeguards and IAEA

Safety and Security

The range and description of the topics and subject matter to be considered during the negotiations and in the treaty.

Scope

Conditions and procedures establishing the consent of a state to be politically and legally bound by the treaty.

Signature and Ratification

Issues relevant to the linkages between the NPT and the UNGA-mandated conference, including how both interact and contribute to the realization of the Zone.

The relationship between the Conference and the NPT

Issues relevant to the linkages between the NPT and the Zone, including the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East and the relationship with the Review Conferences.

The relationship between the Zone and the NPT 

Perceived threats with nature relevant to the scope and mandate of the treaty and the security context in which it is negotiated upon.

Threat Perception

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

The prohibitions, rights and responsibilities of member states and other relevant parties on the transfer, transit, and station of the weapons covered under the treaty.

Transfer, Transit, and Station

Unilateral Coercive Measures

The participation of all state members and other relevant parties.

Universal Participation

Scope, procedures, and instruments for determining the compliance of state parties with the treaty obligations and prohibitions, and to inform or trigger a compliance process, as well as providing information to confirm or refute compliance-related allegations.

Verification

Rules and procedures under which a state could withdraw its consent to be bound by the treaty.

Withdrawal

WMD Dismantlement and Disarmament

Working Committee

The practices and procedures adopted to facilitate the negotiating process. They are related to, but distinct from, the rules of procedures.

Working Methodology of the UNGA-mandated Conference

The geographical delineation and territories for which the treaty is binding and in force. 

Zone of Application

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

<p>Statements delivered on behalf of the Member States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)</p>

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