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(a) “Convention” means the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use
of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction of 13 January 1993;
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(b) “OPCW” means the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons;
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(c) “Government” means the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
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(d) “Appropriate authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands” means such state, municipal
or other authorities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands as may be appropriate in the
context of the relevant provisions of this Agreement and in accordance with the laws
and customs applicable in the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
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(e) “Parties” means the OPCW and the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
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(f) “Headquarters” means the area and any building, including any OPCW laboratory, equipment
store, conference facilities, parts of buildings, land or facilities ancillary thereto,
irrespective of ownership, used by the OPCW on a permanent basis or from time to time,
to carry out its official functions;
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(g) “Director-General” means the Director-General referred to in Article VIII, paragraph 41, of the Convention;
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(h) “State Party” means a State Party to the Convention;
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(i) “Head of Delegation” means the accredited head of the delegation of a State Party
to the Conference of the States Parties and/or to the Executive Council;
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(j) “Alternates for and advisers attached to Heads of Delegation” means alternates for
and advisers attached to Heads of Delegation;
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(k) “Permanent Representative” means the principal representative of a State Party accredited
to the OPCW;
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(l) “Members of the Permanent Mission of a State Party” includes any staff member of the
mission of the Permanent Representative to the OPCW;
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(m) “Delegates of States Parties” means the designated representatives of States Parties
and members of their delegations to any meeting of the OPCW which is not the Conference
of the States Parties or the Executive Council;
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(n) “Experts” means persons performing missions authorised by, serving on subsidiary bodies
of, or in any way, at its request, consulting with the OPCW, provided that they are
neither officials of the OPCW nor attached to Permanent Representatives;
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(o) “Officials of the OPCW” means the Director-General and all members of the staff of
the Technical Secretariat of the OPCW, except those who are locally recruited and
remunerated on an hourly basis;
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(p) “Inspectors on mission” means members of an inspection team as referred to in the
Convention (Verification Annex, Part I, paragraph 17) who are in possession of an inspection mandate issued by the Director-General to
conduct an inspection in accordance with the Convention;
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(q) “Meetings convened by the OPCW” means any meeting of any of the organs or subsidiary
organs of the OPCW, or any international conferences or other gatherings convened
by the OPCW or under its sponsorship;
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(r) “Property” means all property, assets and funds, belonging to the OPCW or held or
administered by the OPCW in furtherance of its functions under the Convention and all income of the OPCW;
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(s) “Samples” means samples as defined in the Convention;
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(t) “Archives of the OPCW” means all records, correspondence, documents, manuscripts,
computer and media data, photographs, films, video and sound recordings belonging
to or held by the OPCW or any of its staff members in an official function, and any
other material which the Director-General and the Government may agree shall form
part of the archives of the OPCW;
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(u) “The Vienna Convention” means the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961.