ABSTRACT
When State Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), met in the 2008 Intersessional Process one of their agenda topics was “Oversight, education, awareness raising and adoption and/or development of codes of conduct with the aim of preventing misuse in the context of advances in bio-science and bio-technology research with the potential of use for purposes prohibited by the Convention.” State Parties to the BTWC agreed, at the Sixth Review Conference in 2006, that part of the agenda for the 2008 meetings in the Intersessional Process should be: Oversight, education, awareness-raising, and adoption and/or development of codes of conduct with the aim of preventing misuse. The 2011 Seventh Review Conference of the BTWC was well prepared for with numerous meetings, studies, and reports. As have seen in regard to education and awareness raising, one important outcome of these preparations was a Working Paper by 11 States Parties, including the UK and the United States.
