Division Purposes

Verification for continued confidence in compliance

Capacity development to prevent and respond to the hostile use of toxic chemicals and to foster international cooperation

Engagement to utilise others' capabilities

An organisation that remains fit for purpose

To identify the perpetrators of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic by identifying and reporting on all information potentially relevant to the origin of those chemical weapons in those instances in which the fact-finding mission (‘the FFM’) determines or has determined that use or likely use occurred, and cases for which the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism (‘JIM’) has not issued a report