Section 6. If applicable, the Director-General shall notify the State Party on whose territory an investigation

6. If applicable, the Director-General shall notify the State Party on whose territory an investigation has been requested. The Director-General shall also notify other States Parties if access to their territories might be required during the investigation. Assignment of inspection team 6. The general plan for destruction of chemical weapons submitted pursuant to Article III, paragraph 1 (a) (v), shall provide an overview of the entire national chemical weapons destruction programme of the State Party and information on the efforts of the State Party to fulfil the destruction requirements contained in this Convention. The plan shall specify: (a) A general schedule for destruction, giving types and approximate quantities of chemical weapons planned to be destroyed in each annual destruction period for each existing chemical weapons destruction facility and, if possible, for each planned chemical weapons destruction facility; (b) The number of chemical weapons destruction facilities existing or planned to be operated over the destruction period; (c) For each existing or planned chemical weapons destruction facility: - (i) Name and location; and (ii) The types and approximate quantities of chemical weapons, and the type (for example, nerve agent or blister agent) and approximate quantity of chemical fill, to be destroyed; (d) The plans and programmes for training personnel for the operation of destruction facilities; (e) The national standards for safety and emissions that the destruction facilities must satisfy; (f) Information on the development of new methods for destruction of chemical weapons and on the improvement of existing methods; (g) The cost estimates for destroying the chemical weapons; and (h) Any issues which could adversely impact on the national destruction programme. B. MEASURES TO SECURE THE STORAGE FACILITY AND STORAGE FACILITY PREPARATION 6. "Abandoned Chemical Weapons" means: Chemical weapons, including old chemical weapons, abandoned by a State after 1 January 1925 on the territory of another State without the consent of the latter. 6. Each State Party shall destroy all chemical weapons specified in paragraph 1 pursuant to the Verification Annex and in accordance with the agreed rate and sequence of destruction (hereinafter referred to as "order of destruction"). Such destruction shall begin not later than two years after this Convention enters into force for it and shall finish not later than 10 years after entry into force of this Convention. A State Party is not precluded from destroying such chemical weapons at a faster rate. 6. Each State Party shall, immediately after the declaration under Article III, paragraph 1 (c), has been submitted, provide access to chemical weapons production facilities specified in paragraph 1, for the purpose of systematic verification of the declaration through on-site inspection. 6. Each State Party shall subject facilities specified in Part IX of the Verification Annex to data monitoring and eventual on-site verification in accordance with that Part of the Verification Annex unless decided otherwise by the Conference of the States Parties pursuant to Part IX, paragraph 22, of the Verification Annex. 6. Each State Party shall treat as confidential and afford special handling to information and data that it receives in confidence from the Organization in connection with the implementation of this Convention. It shall treat such information and data exclusively in connection with its rights and obligations under this Convention and in accordance with the provisions set forth in the Confidentiality Annex. 6. In undertaking its verification activities the Organization shall consider measures to make use of advances in science and technology. 6. The Executive Council shall inform the States Parties about any request for clarification provided in this Article. 6. Nothing in this Convention shall be interpreted as impeding the right of States Parties to request and provide assistance bilaterally and to conclude individual agreements with other States Parties concerning the emergency procurement of assistance. 6. This Article is without prejudice to Article IX or to the provisions on measures to redress a situation and to ensure compliance, including sanctions. AMENDMENTS ARTICLE XV 6. The number of inspectors or inspection assistants accepted by and designated to a State Party must be sufficient to allow for availability and rotation of appropriate numbers of inspectors and inspection assistants. 6. In the case of a chemical weapons destruction facility that is in operation when this Convention enters into force for the State Party, or begins operation not later than one year thereafter, the facility agreement shall be completed not later than 210 days after this Convention enters into force for the State Party, except that the Executive Council may decide that transitional verification arrangements, approved in accordance with Part IV(A), paragraph 51, of this Annex and including a transitional facility agreement, provisions for verification through on-site inspection and monitoring with on-site instruments, and the time-frame for application of the arrangements, are sufficient. 6. A State Party shall treat old chemical weapons that have been confirmed by the Technical Secretariat as meeting the definition in Article II, paragraph 5(a), as toxic waste. It shall inform the Technical Secretariat of the steps being taken to destroy or otherwise dispose of such old chemical weapons as toxic waste in accordance with its national legislation. 6. For each chemical weapons production facility, a State Party shall supply the following information: (a) Envisaged time-frame for measures to be taken; and (b) Methods of destruction. 6. Each State Party shall make a detailed annual declaration regarding transfers during the previous year. The declaration shall be submitted not later than 90 days after the end of that year and shall for each Schedule 1 chemical that has been transferred include the following information: (a) The chemical name, structural formula and Chemical Abstracts Service registry number, if assigned; (b) The quantity acquired from other States or transferred to other States Parties. For each transfer the quantity, recipient and purpose shall be included. C. PRODUCTION General principles for production 6. Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 3 shall include: (a) The name of the plant site and the name of the owner, company, or enterprise operating it; (b) Its precise location including the address; and (c) The number of plants within the plant site which are declared pursuant to Part VIII of this Annex. 6. Declarations of a plant site pursuant to paragraph 3 shall include: (a) The name of the plant site and the name of the owner, company, or enterprise operating it; (b) Its precise location including the address; and (c) The number of plants within the plant site which are declared pursuant to Part VII of this Annex. 6. With regard to plant sites listed pursuant to paragraph 1 (b), the list shall also specify the number of PSF-plants within the plant site and include information on the approximate aggregate amount of production of PSF-chemicals produced by each PSF-plant in the previous calendar year expressed in the ranges: under 200 tonnes, 200 to 1,000 tonnes, 1,000 to 10,000 tonnes and above 10,000 tonnes. Assistance by the Technical Secretariat 6. The requesting State Party shall notify the Director-General of the location of the inspection site in due time for the Director-General to be able to provide this information to the inspected State Party not less than 12 hours before the planned arrival of the inspection team at the point of entry. 6. Each position in the Technical Secretariat shall be governed by a formal position description that specifies the scope of access to confidential information, if any, needed in that position.