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Mission Statement

The Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Bureau’s Office of Chemical and Conventional Weapons Affairs (CCA) serves as the lead within the Department for addressing the verification, compliance, and compliance enforcement aspects of existing and prospective arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments involving chemical and conventional weapons; participating in international negotiations and consultations related to these aspects of such arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments; and preparing verifiability assessments in these areas of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements as required under 22 U.S.C. § 2577, or by direction.

The Office also serves as the lead within the Department for reviewing and assessing compliance by foreign countries with arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments involving chemical and conventional weapons, and technology, equipment, materials, and all other aspects of a program to develop, produce, or otherwise acquire chemical weapons; chairing interagency committees that have principal responsibility in these areas; engaging in diplomatic consultations to address compliance concerns; and incorporating compliance analyses and assessments into the annual noncompliance report to the Congress pursuant to 22 U.S.C. § 2593(a)(4-6), as well as specialized compliance reports required under Senate Resolutions of Ratification and other reports, as appropriate.

VCI/CCA serves as the lead within the Department for developing U.S. policy relative to existing and prospective European conventional arms control agreements and commitments; developing tactics for achieving that policy and chairing related interagency committees; and participating in U.S. delegations to international organizations responsible for European conventional arms control agreements and commitments. At present, the European conventional arms control agreements that the Office is responsible for implementing are: the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the Vienna Document 1999 Confidence-and Security-Building Measures (CSBMs), the Treaty on Open Skies, and arms control elements of the Dayton Peace Accords. The Office is also responsible for leading U.S. ratification of the Agreement on Adaptation of the CFE Treaty, when it becomes appropriate to submit the Agreement for the Senate’s advice and consent, and for the Adapted Treaty’s eventual entry into force and implementation.

The Office is responsible for supporting international organizations:

• Providing policy and administrative support to the Chief U.S. Arms Control Delegate in the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Office staff serves as delegation members as well.

• Providing support and personnel to NATO committees, including the NATO High Level Task Force (HLTF), the Verification Coordinating Committee and the NATO-Russia Council Arms Control Experts.

• Providing technical and policy advisors on verification and compliance matters to international meetings related to chemical weapons, including to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), its Technical Secretariat, and the CWC executive organs.

• Providing support for efforts to promote CSBMs in regions of the world beyond Europe, in connection with OSCE efforts at wider sharing of OSCE norms, principles, and commitments with Mediterranean and Asian states.

The Office also has responsibility for the following functions:

• Assisting in the evaluation of WMD-related transfers by foreign entities related to chemical and conventional weapons with respect to U.S. sanction laws and Executive Orders, and supporting the Assistant Secretary in his or her role as advisor to senior Department officials on sanctions determinations.

• Assisting in developing and reviewing the compliance and sanction related aspects of interdiction policies and their implementation to prevent transfers related to chemical and conventional weapons.

• Assisting in developing and reviewing the verification, compliance and sanction related aspects of U.S. policies for expanding arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament regimes and arrangements related to chemical and conventional weapons.

• Analyzing military expenditures and arms transfers by foreign countries and preparing, pursuant to 22 U.S.C. § 2593b, the annual report, "World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers."

• Coordinating closely with (VCI/TA) to ensure that current and projected intelligence collection and analytical requirements related to verification, compliance, compliance enforcement, and implementation in the above areas are clearly formulated, well understood, and given appropriate emphasis and attention.