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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-429/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2011/429",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision 2011/429/CFSP of 18 July 2011 relating to the position of the European Union for the Seventh Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction (BTWC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2011-429",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In addition to the objectives laid down in Article 1 and the priorities laid down in Article 2, the Union shall support the strengthening of the role of the ISU. In particular, the Union shall support:\n(a) the prolongation of the ISU’s mandate for another five years;\n(b) the following activities being included in the mandate of the ISU:\n(i) establishing a communication and information platform on policy, scientific and other activities relevant to the BTWC (setting up a ‘reference library’/electronic database for building awareness with States Parties, academia and industry);\n(ii) liaising and sharing information with other relevant international organisations;\n(iii) further strengthening the national implementation of the BTWC by facilitating the exchange of information and advice on national implementation;\n(iv) further supporting the CBM system by participating to a review process of the CBM declarations. Based on information supplied by means of revised CBMs, the ISU could be mandated to compile Article X of the BTWC related information into an online database;\n(v) developing a system to review scientific and technological developments and their impact on the BTWC;\n(vi) developing an action plan on universalisation;\n(c) an adequate expansion of the current ISU staff in order to enable the ISU to carry out the activities referred to in point (b).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2011/429/article/5",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}