(Cont.) Convention On The Prohibition Of The Development, Production,
Stockpiling And Use Of Chemical Weapons And On Their Destruction
"United Nations, 1993, pp. 1 - 172"

accordance with the facility agreement, or, in the absence of a facility agreement, in accordance with the rules of managed access as specified in Part X, Section C, of this Annex.

26.   Access to records shall be provided, as appropriate, to provide assurance that there has been no diversion of the declared chemical and that production has been consistent with declarations.

27.   Sampling and analysis shall be undertaken to check for the absence of undeclared scheduled chemicals.

28.   Areas to be inspected may include:

         (a)   Areas where feed chemicals (reactants) are delivered or stored;

         (b)   Areas where manipulative processes are performed upon the reactants prior to addition to the reaction vessels;

         (c)   Feed lines as appropriate from the areas referred to in subparagraph (a) or subparagraph (b) to the reaction vessels together with any associated valves, flow meters, etc.;

         (d)   The external aspect of the reaction vessels and ancillary equipment;

         (e)   Lines from the reaction vessels leading to long- or short-term storage or to equipment further processing the declared Schedule 2 chemicals;

         (f)   control equipment associated with any of the items under subparagraphs (a) to (e);

         (g)   Equipment and areas for waste and effluent handling;

         (h)   Equipment and areas for disposition of chemicals not up to specification.

29.   The period of inspection shall not last more than 96 hours; however, extensions may be agreed between the inspection team and the inspected state Party.

Notification of inspection

30.   A State Party shall be notified by the Technical Secretariat of the inspection not less than 48 hours before the arrival of the inspection team at the plant site to be inspected.

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