{"id":28292,"date":"2025-10-27T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28292"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T09:39:00","slug":"opcw-the-hague-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/opcw-the-hague-award\/","title":{"rendered":"OPCW- The Hague Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About OPCW- The Hague Award:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons established the \u2018OPCW-The Hague Award\u2019 in collaboration with the <strong>Municipality of The Hague in 2014.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Itis part of the OPCW\u2019s ongoing effort to highlight significant contributions made by <strong>individuals and organisations,<\/strong> widely from academia, researchers, chemical industry, and civil society to achieve a <strong>world free of chemical weapons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Recipient of the award receives <strong>a medallion, a certificate<\/strong> and share of <strong>the \u20ac90,000 award fund.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about the Indian Chemical Council<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is India&#8217;s premier body <strong>representing the chemical industry which was <\/strong>established in 1938.<\/li>\n<li>It is the apex national body <strong>representing all branches of the Chemical Industry<\/strong> in India such as Organic &amp; Inorganic Chemicals, Plastics &amp; Petrochemicals &amp; Petroleum Refineries etc.<\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Commerce &amp; Industry, Government of India, has authorised all ICC offices (Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai) to <strong>issue the CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN for the exporters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Initiatives of ICC:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>ICC\u2019s <strong>\u2018Nicer Globe\u2019 initiative<\/strong> has had a substantial impact on chemical transportation safety in India, offering real-time monitoring and emergency response capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>It has conducted other activities to promote chemical safety and security through its <strong>\u2018Responsible Care\u2019 (RC) programme<\/strong> and the introduction of the Security Code of RC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Do you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-organisation-for-the-prohibition-of-chemical-weapons-opcw\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons<\/strong><\/a>is the implementing body of the <strong>Chemical Weapons Convention<\/strong> (CWC).<\/li>\n<li>Its mission isto implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in order to achieve the OPCW\u2019s vision of a world that is free of chemical weapons and of the threat of their use, and in which cooperation in chemistry for peaceful purposes for all is fostered.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>receives states-parties\u2019 declarations detailing<\/strong> chemical weapons-related activities or materials and relevant industrial activities.<\/li>\n<li>The OPCW was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/nobel-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nobel Peace Prize<\/strong><\/a><strong> in 2013.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:<\/strong> Hague, Netherlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Chemical Weapons Convention?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a multilateral treaty that bans chemical weapons and requires their destruction within a specified period of time.It entered into force on April 29, 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2077867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Chemical Council Wins 2024 OPCW-The Hague Award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPCW- The Hague Award was  established by  the  Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in collaboration with the Municipality of The Hague in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}