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.