Center for verification tasks of the Bundeswehr

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Center for Verification Tasks of the Bundeswehr - ZVBw -
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Lineup	1990
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Organizational area	Force Base
Strength	175 employees
Insinuation	Armed Forces Office
Location	Geilenkirchen
Web presence	ZVBw
commander
commander	Brigadier General Peter Braunstein

The Center for Verification Tasks of the Bundeswehr (ZVBw) is an agency of the Bundeswehr that performs arms control tasks for the Federal Republic of Germany. The military inspectors also accompany foreign delegations who check in Germany whether correct information is being given and obligations are being complied with. The Federal Ministry of Defense and the Foreign Office are responsible .

The ZVBw comprises around 170 soldiers and civil servants, is organizationally assigned to the armed forces base , including the armed forces office, and reports to the BMVg's arms control department. The deployment location is Geilenkirchen in the Selfkant barracks.

assignment

The mission of the ZVBw is

• to plan and carry out the tasks for which national responsibility lies within the framework of the application of treaties, agreements and conventions on arms control as well as confidence and security-building measures,
• to work together with the responsible national and international bodies as well as the verification organizations of the partner countries and international organizations,
• to evaluate the verification results determined in this way and thus to contribute to the assessment of the overall military and security policy situation

Contractual bases

The arms control treaties, agreements, protocols and documents to be processed include B.

• Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe = CFE Treaty
• Vienna Document on Political and Military Confidence and Security-Building Measures (VSBM) in Europe
• Contract for Open Skies , Open Skies (not to be confused with the new airline, a BA subsidiary)
• Dayton Treaty on the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dayton Peace Accords
• UN Firearms Protocol , UN Firearms Protocol
• OSCE Document on Small Arms and Light Weapons D SALW
• Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons Convention
• Ottawa Convention on the Worldwide Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines
• Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons that Certainly cause undue suffering or may act indiscriminately, CCWC Certain Conventional Weapons Convention or Convention on Cluster Munitions
• Wassenaar Agreement on export control of conventional weapon systems and sensitive "dual use" goods and technologies
• HCoC Hague Code Of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation - Hague Code of Conduct against the proliferation of ballistic missiles, currently 137 member states (as of Feb. 11, 2014)
• CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - a comprehensive ban on nuclear tests
• MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime - Missile Technology Control Regime or Missile Technology Control Regime

Federal Intelligence Service branch

According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) of the Federal Republic of Germany has a secret branch in Geilenkirchen. The BND informed the Bundeswehr inspectors before their missions abroad about the situation there and gave advice on which places a visit could be particularly worthwhile, for example with regard to suspicious armaments.

Ukraine 2014

On April 25, 2014, three soldiers from the ZVBw and a civilian linguist were taken into custody by a separatist leader in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk on charges of espionage for NATO , along with some military from other countries . As the OSCE announced on the evening of April 25th, the military observers were not on behalf of the OSCE, but rather as part of a bilateral mission based on the Vienna Document at the invitation of the transitional government in Kiev in eastern Ukraine. After mediation by the Russian government , the observers were released on May 3rd .

Former commanders

• Brigadier General Heinz Loquai
• Brigadier General Peter von Geyso
• Brigadier General Hans Huebner
• Brigadier General Jens Zimmermann
• Brigadier General Winfried Mertens
• Brigadier General Jürgen Beyer

Partner organizations of other countries

• USA : Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Great Britain : Joint Arms Control Implementation Group (JACIG)
• BENELUX : BENELUX Arms Control Agency (BACA) Joint Belgian, Netherlands, Luxemburg Agency
• Belgium : Belgian Verification Agency (BEVA) (See BACA)
• Luxembourg : Groupe d'Inspections Vérifications et Observations Armée (Luxembourgeoise) (GIVO) (See BACA)
• Italy : Centro Interforze Verifica Armamenti (CIVA)
• France : Unité Française de Vérification (UFV)
• Russia : National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (NRRC)
• Spain : Unidad De Verificacion Espanola (UVE)
• Belarus : National Agency for Control and Inspections (K for Kontrolja) (NAKI)
• South Korea : Korea Arms Verification Agency (KAVA)

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ OSCE participating States
2. ↑ Convention on Cluster Munitions (WP)
3. ↑ HCoC signatory states : List of Subscribing States to the HCOC as of 11th February 2014 ( Memento of 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 9 kB)
4. ↑ signatory states CTBT
5. ↑ MTCR partner states ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Frederik Obermaier, Tanjev Schultz: OSCE military observer: advising Bundeswehr inspectors from the BND. In: Süddeutsche.de . May 5, 2014, accessed May 9, 2014 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Lukin: “Voluntary humanitarian act” , NZZ, May 3, 2014
8. ↑ Swiss OSCE Chair calls for release of abducted military inspectors, OSCE working at all levels for setting them free. OSCE , April 27, 2014, accessed April 30, 2014 (press release). 
9. ↑ Nico Fried: Performed in an unworthy play. Prisoners of War or Guests? In: Süddeutsche.de . April 27, 2014, accessed May 9, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Claus Neukirch, Deputy Head of the OSCE Crisis Prevention Center, is a guest on the program ZIB 24 on Austrian television on April 25, 2014 on the situation of the kidnapped OSCE employees .

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