European Parliament and Committee on Foreign Affairs 16 November 2006, European Parliament resolution on a Baltic Sea Region Strategy for the Northern Dimension (2006/2171(INI))

16. Calls upon all Member States, the Council and the Commission to work hard to ensure that, within the foreseeable future, both the BTWC and the CCW are equipped with a permanent secretariat to oversee their successful implementation, along the lines of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weap- ons, which was created for that purpose under the Chemical Weapons Convention; 17.