Contents; Contributing Authors; Welcome Address by the Federal Minister of Defence Dr. Peter Struck; Foreword Prof. Dr. Vladimir Mikhailovich Kolodkin, Prof. Dr.-lng. Wolfgang Ruck; Introduction; CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION AFTER THE FIRST REVIEW CONFERENCE; Jiri Matousek, IMPLEMENTATION OF RUSSIA'S OBLIGATIONS TO DESTROY CHEMICAL WEAPON IN UDMURTIA REPUBLIC; Anatoly A.Fominykh; THE CWC AFTER THE REVIEW CONFERENCE; Walter Krutzsch; Ecological Risks Associated with the Destruction of Chemical Weapons; Session I: Prediction; EVALUATION OF STATE OF ENVIRONMENT AND MONITORING OF HAZARDOUS FACILITIES; Mikhail Kurguzkin, PREDICTION OF QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS OF EFFECTS ON NATURE FROM POTENTIAL ACCIDENTS AT CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT FACILITIES; Vladimir Kolodkin, Aleksey Murin, ECOLOGICAL RISKS OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES COMBUSTION; Alexey M. Lipanov et al;RISK ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS INFLUENCE ON ECOSYSTEMS AS THE WHOLE V. N. Lystsov et al, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS; Jiri Matousek, ECOLOGICAL RISKS ANALYSIS FOR THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS DESTRUCTION FACILITY; T. Shvetsova-Shilovskaya, AN APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT OF CHEMICAL RISK ON THE BASIS OF GENERATION OF TIME SERIES; Aleksey Murin, THE COMPLEX APPROACH IN APPRAISAL OF THE CONDITIONS OF NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS IN THE ZONE > USED FOR THE STORAGE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS (POCHEP, BRYANSK REGION); V. P. Ivanov et al, ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL RISKS WITHIN AN ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM Nicolay Zabrodine et al, DECHLORINATION OF RECALCITRANT POLYCHLORINATED CoNTAMINANTS USING BALL MILLING; Volker Birke et al; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR AS-CONTAINING CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS - STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES; Tina Vollerthun, Wolfgang Spyra Session II: Monitoring; PERSONAL MONITORING OF OLD CHEMICALWEAPONS DISMANTLING OPERATIONS AT POELKAPELLE (BELGIUM); Herbert C. De Bisschop et al, RADIO-ECOLOGICAL MONITORING OF THE ENVIRONMENT; Irina Fedotova, ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY FOR MONITORING THE DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; Herbert H. Hill, Wes E. Steiner, IDENTIFICATION OF CHEMICAL NEUTRALIZATION OF PRODUCTS OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; Elena Saveljeva et al, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH MONITORING IN RELATION TO THE DEMOLITION OF THE FORMER CWPF AT JSC KHIMPROM NOVOCHEBOKSARSK, RUSSIA; Tatyana G. Kudankina et al, VAPOR VALIDATION OF MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION OF TRACE LEVELS OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS IN AIR; Joseph Padayhag, TACIS PROJECT, 'THEDEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH MONITORJNG SYSTEM RELATED TO THE DEMILITARIZATION OF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS FACILITY AT THE DETACHED PLANT NR. 4 OF OAO KHIMPROM, NOVOCHEBOKSARSK' AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE RUSSIAN DEMILITARIZATION ACTIVITIES AT CWPFS; Thomas Stock, TOXICOLOGICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS OF TWO-STAGE TECHNOLOGY OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS DESTRUCTION IN RUSSIA; Andrey Radilov, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL-ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RISK ASSESSMENT FOR LEWISITE DESTRUCTION; Leonid Ionov et al, RISK MAPPING AND RISK ASSESSMENT FOR SUSPECTED CHEMICAL WEAPONS BuRIAL SITES ON THE FORMER MILITARY TRAINING AREA DÖBERITZER HEIDE (GERMANY); Kay Winkelmann et al, ABOUT EVALUATION PRACTICE OF EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF CHEMICALLY DANGEROUS FACILITIES; Gennadiy Arbusov, Boris Laskin, RISK ASSESSMENT AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT AT CHEMICAL FACILITIES WITH THE USE OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; Alexander Egorov, Tatiana Savitskaya, ON THE ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE POSSIBLE LEAKAGE OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS DURING TRANSPORTATION AND DISPOSAL OF MUNITIONS; Leonid Vasilyev, ECOLOGICAL RISKS AND ECOLOGICAL INSURANCE IN RUSSIA (IN