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Article 1#
1.For the purpose of contributing to international peace and security, confidence and transparency, and to the implementation of the EU strategy against the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Union shall support mission activities related to Syria and Ukraine to ensure, through the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), effective responses to the risks of chemical weapons proliferation and use, also empowering States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (CWC) to ensure accountability in cases of use of chemical weapons, on the basis of the work and reports of the OPCW. The provision of satellite products and services by the European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen) seeks to enhance the capacities for those OPCW-mandated activities for security and verification accuracy with the following objectives:
(a)contributing to the full internationally verified elimination of the Syrian chemical weapons programme and establishing the facts and identifying the perpetrators related to the use of chemical weapons, in accordance with the relevant decisions of the policy-making organs of the OPCW;
(b)providing assistance consistent with the CWC to enable Ukraine to have the civil technical capabilities necessary to ensure that it can respond effectively to incidents involving chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals, including on the battlefield in Ukraine; and
(c)expanding the OPCW’s operational capacities through imagery analysis, in support of OPCW-mandated activities, particularly with regard to Syria and Ukraine.
2.A detailed description of the Union-supported activities of the OPCW referred to in paragraph 1 is set out in the Project Document.
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