South Africa adheres to a number of international treaties, agreements and arrangements that has an impact on its policy on non-proliferation, disarmament and arms control and includes, amongst others, the following:
- Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) https://www.opcw.org/
- Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) https://www.ctbto.org/
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC) http://www.opbw.org/convention/conv.html
- Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC) https://www.hcoc.at/
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) https://www.iaea.org/
- Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) https://mtcr.info/
- Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) http://www.nuclearsuppliersgroup.org/en/
- Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) https://www.wassenaar.org/
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/
- Zangger Committee http://www.zanggercommittee.org/
- United Nations Security Council (UNSC) https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/
- UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (UN PoA) http://unrcpd.org/conventional-weapons/poa/
It must be noted that although South Africa is not a member of the Australia Group (AG), some of the chemicals on the AG list are included as part of the non-proliferation chemical regulation. These are chemicals that are toxic and are also precursors of chemical weapons.