Direct action by a global union. The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) trains and places inspectors on ships to ensure compliance with international standards and agreements.

A nation hosting inspections will require assurance that no such sensitive information will be revealed to the inspecting party and that only agreed characteristics will be disclosed.

The availability of qualified and trained inspectors for deployment at short notice and well established sampling and analysis capabilities and procedures, both within the inspection team and in outside laboratories, are required.

Such was the case when UNMOVIC determined the Al Samoud 2 missile, which was developed during the period from 1999 to 2002 in the absence of international inspectors, to be a proscribed missile.

Additional technical parameters applied in the course of ongoing monitoring and verification, that could be practicably verified with a minimal degree of ambiguity, have proven to be effective tools that prevented Iraq from developing proscribed missiles in the presence of international inspectors.