Countering bio-threats: EU instruments for managing biological materials, technology and knowledge

Summary:

This paper draws on research that was carried out as part of a pilot project conducted by SIPRI to investigate how the common instruments of the EU can support and reinforce actions taken by individual European governments (acting on their own or through intergovernmental cooperation) against the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons. That project investigated what could be done outside the EU to reduce the danger of NBC weapon proliferation. This paper mainly examines internal measures to protect Europeans from health threats caused by the deliberate use of disease.

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