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The Operations Support Centre (OSC) is a crucial element for effective preparation for an on-site inspection (OSI); its organization and proper functioning directly impact the degree of inspection team preparedness before departing for the inspected State Party. The OSC will be activated within a couple of hours after the DG has received a request for an OSI, and it must immediately become operational. That requires a sound concept, a tested organizational approach, adequate infrastructure, clear and user-friendly procedures, and trained staff from all units of the Technical Secretariat.
The OSC concept and related operating procedures have evolved over the time. The most recent update reflected the experience from the 2014 integrated field exercise and the commissioning of the new CTBT Operations Centre (COPC) at the PTS headquarters (Ref. SnT2019-T4.4-P13), which is a potential deployment location for an ad hoc OSI OSC at the Vienna International Centre. It was tested during the Build-Up Exercise on the OSI launch phase (BUE-L) in November 2019.
This poster explains the updated concept and organization of the OSI OSC as an ad hoc part of the COPC, illustrates the infrastructure, and summarizes relevant aspects of BUE-L.
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The poster explains the updated concept and organization of the OSI OSC as an ad hoc part of the COPC, illustrates the infrastructure, and summarizes relevant aspects of BUE-L.
