Abstract
"The Law on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the Regulation of Specific Chemicals" was enacted in 1995 as the national implementation law for the "Chemical Weapons Convention". The Convention stipulates the general prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons, and the destruction of chemical weapons that each State Party concerned with the establishment of this Convention owns. And under the Convention, the verification programme implemented by the international organization is established in order to secure these obligations. In addition, regulations with respect to chemicals, which are used in civil life but include materials for potential chemical weapons, are introduced. The primary object of this law is to ensure the adequate implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention in Japan. Therefore, this law stipulates the prohibition of the production, possession, and transfer of chemical weapons as well as the regulation of the production and the use of specific chemicals required by the Convention.
