Is aware that proliferation increases the threat of diversion by terrorist groups and encourages the EU to continue its efforts towards universalising the legal framework for combating nuclear terrorism and ensuring that the current rules are complied with; supports cooperation projects with third countries, for example in the Mediterranean basin, in order to combat trafficking in nuclear and radiological material; calls on the EU to universalise the CWC and the BWC with a view to the Conference to review the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention (BTWC) in 2011;

whereas the threat to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear safety arises not only from terrorist attacks or negligence, but also from the current areas polluted with chemical weapons from the Second World War that were dumped on the seabed or on nuclear waste sites in the EU,

Endorses the assessment that CBRN attacks are a serious threat to the security of people living in the EU; therefore supports all measures which offer greater protection against CBRN attacks;

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons (CBRN)

This is understandable given the fears that a container might be misused for smuggling terrorist weapons or even as a delivery vehicle for a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapon.

This is understandable given the fears that a container might be misused for smuggling terrorist weapons or even as a delivery vehicle for a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapon.