Jiří Matoušek

PERSONAL DECONTAMINATION IN CASES OF CHEMICAL TERRORIST ATTACKS

In this publication are shown and discussed first results of R&D on universal solutions for detoxification of super-toxic lethal chemical warfare agents on human skin.

The Czech National Action Plan to Combat Terrorism: Political and Legal Point of Outcome in Responding to CBRN-Terrorism

In the Czech Republic, a complex approach and broad institutional co-operation involving inputs of scientific research to analyse endangered critical infrastructures and to adopt respective countermeasures had led to strengthening national measures in implementing respective international agreements dealing with WMD non-proliferation under deepening the co-operation within EU and NATO. The concrete complex programme of harmonised effort of all state organs in combating international terrorism resulted in the Czech National Action Plan to Combat Terrorism (2002). This (bi-annually updated) binding political document identifies threats to all sectors of society and contains active measures to be undertaken by involved organisations and institutions in all aspects of prevention, repression, protection, rescue and recovery for cases of terrorist attacks. Its contents is discussed with special emphasis on the aspects of CBRN terrorism and role of Integrated Rescue System in responding the threats.

International Legal System on Combating CBRN-Terrorism

The development of global system for combating international organised crime and its highest and most brutal form — international terrorism is shortly portrayed. Experience with already 13 global agreements on combating international terrorism, starting with the oldest on offences committed onboard aircraft (1963), is thoroughly analysed. Even if some of them deal with tools of violence like that on physical protection of fissile material (1980), on marking plastic explosives (1991), on suppression of terrorist bombing (1997) and on suppression of nuclear terrorism (2005), they are mostly rather target- than tool-oriented and address the chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) terrorism (often depicted as ultra- or super-terrorism) only very exceptionally. The comprehensive Convention against International Terrorism is being negotiated at present. Relevant activities of prestigious regional, sub-regional and other interest organisations in combating international terrorism are reviewed; present state and further developments of political and legal constraints against new forms of advanced terrorism are discussed.