Summary of an Act
World Legislative Act #33
Banning the Production of Fissile Materials
for Nuclear Weapons and other Nuclear Explosive Devices
Short Title:
Fissile Materials Ban
Enacts, as People of Earth, represented by provisional World Parliament, World Statute banning production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices.
ARTICLE 1. Defines technical and legal terms related to fissile materials production ban.
ARTICLE 2. Defines general prohibitions and obligations related to fissile materials production and processing, including prohibition of separation, production and processing of highly-enriched plutonium and uranium.
ARTICLE 3. Requires disclosure, tracking, security, closure, and reporting. Requires World Disarmament Agency verification and control. Requires access to facilities for application of verification system to ensure that facilities remain closed and decommissioned.
ARTICLE 4 Fissile Materials Department
Establishes Fissile Materials Department (FM Department) to implement Statute. Declares seat, functions and responsibility of FM Department. Requires FM Department to verify closure operations of Fissile Materials facilities. Permits full range of civil enforcement by World Disarmament Agency and Enforcement System.
Assigns World Financial Administration to arrange payment for costs of FM Department's activities. Defines responsibilities of States and general terms of State Party credit arrangements with Earth Financial Credit Corporation. Requires separate appropriation sections for EFCC extension of credit for fissile materials costs. Reconfirms or establishes organs of FM Department: World Disarmament Agency Board of Trustees, Fissile Materials Council (FM Council), Fissile Materials Technical Secretariat (FM Technical Secretariat), and Fissile Materials Data Centre. Defines process for rules of procedure. Defines further powers and responsibilities of Fissile Materials Department.
ARTICLE 5. Defines further powers and responsibilities of World Disarmament Agency Board of Trustees. (WDA Board).
ARTICLE 6. Fissile Materials Council
Defines Fissile Materials Council (FM Council) as executive organ of FM Department. Declares FM Council accountable to WDA Board. Defines powers and responsibilities.
ARTICLE 7. Establishes, and defines composition and responsibilities of Fissile Materials Technical Secretariat to perform verification, including Fissile Materials Director. Establishes, and defines composition and responsibilities of International Data Center to manage, process, analyze and report data on fissile materials and facilities.
ARTICLE 8. National Implementing Measures
Requires each State Party to Earth Constitution to adopt measures to implement Statute. Requires, in particular, State Party to: 8.1. Report to Enforcement System if natural and legal persons anywhere violate Statute; 8.2. Refrain from permitting Statute violation anywhere under State Party jurisdiction or control; 8.3 Enact cooperative law enforcement legislation with respect to all activities prohibited by Statute, to facilitate trans-jurisdictional due process to world federal level; and 8.4. Extend cooperative law enforcement legislation beyond geographic borders.
ARTICLE 9. Settlement of Disputes
Defines process for dispute settlement under Statute.
ARTICLE 10. Duration
Declares Statute to be of unlimited duration.
ARTICLE 11. Status of Annexes
Requires World Disarmament Agency to make list of facilities and materials that are to be inspected, graded and verified, based upon reports of FM Department, FM Council and FM Technical Secretariat. Declares WDA Board-adopted Annex as integral to Statute.
ARTICLE 12. Signature
Permits direct approval by Assembly of States Parties, but neither veto by Assembly nor statutory accession by nations. Permits Assembly of States Parties to recommend item amendments to House of Counsellors.
ARTICLE 13. Ratification
Declares Statute not subject to ratification or veto by national States. Encourages about 25 national states to simultaneously give preliminary ratification to Earth Constitution.
ARTICLE 14. Accession - Defines accession to constitutive document, not as process direct to Statute.
ARTICLE 15. Declares timing of Entry into force
ARTICLE 16. Reservations Allows no reservations.
ARTICLE 17. Depository
Declares responsibilities of Presidium of Earth Federation or Standing Executive Cabinet of provisional World Parliament as Statute depository.
ARTICLE 18. Authentic texts
Requires Commission for Legislative Review to submit authenticated language versions to Presidium.
ANNEX 1 - Details additional verification requirements, including lists: fissile materials and facilities, methods of monitoring compliance, types of inspections, inspection schedules, inspection reports, and conditions for warrant service applications.
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Fissile Materials Ban was adopted 12 April 2006, as World Legislative Act #33 by the
ninth session of the provisional World Parliament,
meeting in Tripoli in conformance with Article 19 of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
Attested:
Eugenia Almand, JD, Secretary
Provisional World Parliament
www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/greenpeace-draft-treaty-bannin.pdf, for non-adopted original full text of Fissile Production Ban.