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Chemical warfare agents on the one hand and biological and toxin warfare agents on the other enjoy a number of commonalities. This basic statement lies at the heart of the assumption that there are lessons to be learned from the structure, content and implementation experience of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) for the negotiations of the Compliance Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC or BWC). In our discussion of these commonalities we follow the subdivision of issues which was put forward by Robinson [1]. Thus, in the remainder of this first section we will take up the common taboo against both CW and BW, the issue of toxins as the overlapping category of agent covered by both CWC and BWC, the problems of dual-use and of technological change, and the question of effective protection against CBW.
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Kelle, A., Matousek, J. (2001). Lessons of the Chemical Weapons Convention for the BTWC Protocol. In: Kelle, A., Dando, M.R., Nixdorff, K. (eds) The Role of Biotechnology in Countering BTW Agents. NATO Science Series, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0775-7_3
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