United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2000-09-13 monographic deposited born digital 11 p. GA 1.13:T-NSIAD-00-249 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-00-249 P0b002ee18037dbea f:ns00249t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-00-249 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-00-249 T-NSIAD-00-249 Arms control agreements Biological warfare Chemical warfare Proprietary data Inspection Cost analysis Chemical Weapons Convention Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons Convention Testimony NSIAD

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed companies in the chemical, agricultural, and brewing industries inspected under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention), focusing on: (1) how companies protect proprietary information during inspections; (2) any adverse publicity for companies as a result of being inspected; and (3) the costs to companies of being inspected.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) the experience of the first seven U.S. companies that have been inspected under the Chemical Weapons Convention showed that companies were generally able to protect proprietary information, in part because of certain provisions in the Convention and U.S. law; (2) GAO did not identify any instances in which a company was affected by adverse publicity resulting from inspections, even though companies varied in how much information was provided to the public concerning inspections; (3) these companies reported inspection-related costs to GAO ranging from $6,000 to $107,000; and (4) the large variation is partly attributable to inconsistencies in components of costs included in the total cost as well as differences in the facilities being inspected. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-00-249/html/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-00-249.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-00-249/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-00-249.pdf GAO/T-NSIAD-00-249 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-00-249 Testimony GAO/T-NSIAD-00-249; Arms Control: Experience of U.S. Industry With Chemical; Arms control agreements Biological warfare Chemical warfare Proprietary data Inspection Cost analysis Chemical Weapons Convention Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons Convention Title 22 Section 6701 22 U.S.C. 6701