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Inspection Statistics
This section provides statistics on CWC inspections conducted worldwide by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
| Declaring States Parties | Declared Sites or Facilities | Inspections to Date** | Total Number of Sites Inspected | |
| CWPF | 13 | 70 | 412 | 67 |
| CWDF | 6 | 37 | 1189 | 37 |
| CWSF | 7 | 38 | 405 | 36 |
| ACW | 3 | 35 | 49 | 25 |
| OCW | 13 | 47 | 87 | 30 |
| TOTALS | 227 | 2,142 | 195 | |
| Schedule 1 | 22 | 27 | 202 | 36 |
| Schedule 2 | 37 | 452 | 469 | 254 |
| Schedule 3 | 35 | 479 | 269 | 234 |
| DOC | 81 | 4,618 | 730 | 579 |
| TOTALS | 5,576 | 1,670 | 1,103 |
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CWPF= Chemical Weapons Production Facility |
ACW= Abandoned Chemical Weapons |
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From entry into force of the CWC (April 1997) until August 31, 2009, the OPCW has conducted 3,812 inspections on the territory of 81 States Parties, including 2,142 inspections of chemical weapon-related sites. One hundred ninety-five chemical weapon-related sites have been inspected out of a total of 227 declared.
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100% of the declared chemical weapons stockpiles have been inventoried and verified.
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176 initial declarations have been received.
100% of the declared chemical weapons production facilities (CWPFs) have been inactivated. All are subject to a verification regime of unprecedented stringency. Sixty-two of the 70 CWPFs declared to the OPCW have been either destroyed (43) or converted for peaceful purposes (19). Thirteen States Parties have declared CWPFs: Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, France, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Russian Federation, Serbia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America, and another State Party.
**Data as of August 31, 2009
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