A contentious issue since original negotiations of the CWC text began, here you can find a number of reports on non-lethal, incapacitating agents and riot control agents related to their coverage under the CWC.
More information on non-lethal and incapacitating agents can be found at the FAS “Non-Lethal Chemical Weapons” page.

• The SIPRI-Saskatchewan-Frankfurt Research Group produced a number of papers and factsheets on certain aspects of the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention between 1993 and 1996.
  • Paper 13: History of the negotiations on the CWC – short overview T. Stock. (See Page 36)
  • Fact Sheet 3: Riot Control Agents under the CWC.
• Issue no 24 of The CBW Conventions Bulletin (June 1994)
  Includes:
  Guest article by Pierre Canonne: The Role of the Scientific Community Within
  the Context of the Convention
  Guest article by Karen Jansen: Disarming Iraq: Lessons for the Chemical Weapons
  Convention
  Progress in The Hague: 6th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: February – May 1994
  Guidelines on Riot control Agents
• Issue no 51 of The CBW Conventions Bulletin (March 2001)
  Includes:
  Editorial: Washington and the BWC Protocol negotiations
  Invited article by Graham Pearson: Further chemical control regimes: narcotic
  drugs and psychotropic substances
  Progress in The Hague: 33rd Quarterly Review
  Progress in Geneva: 15th Quarterly Review
  Proceedings in South Africa: 4th Quarterly Review
  News Chronology: November 2000 – January 2001
• First CWC Review Conference Paper No 4: The Danger to the Chemical Weapons Convention from Incapacitating Chemicals – Malcolm Dando – March 2003.
• U.S. Grapples with Use of Nonlethal Agents – Kerry Boyd, Arms Control Today – April 2003.
• A Nation at War: Weapons; U.S. Use of Tear Gas Could Violate Treaty, Critics Say – Nicholas Wade With Eric Schmitt – The New York Times – April 5, 2003.
• Military Authorized to Use Riot Control Agents in Iraq – Kerry Boyd, Arms Control Today – May 2003.
• Issue no 61 of The CBW Conventions Bulletin (September 2003)
  Includes:
  Editorial: ‘Non-lethal’ weapons, the CWC and the BWC
  Progress in The Hague: 43rd Quarterly Review
  Report from Geneva: The Biological Weapons Convention New Process
  News Chronology May-July 2003
• Senate Struggles with Riot Control Agent Policy – Michael Nguyen, Arms Control Today – January/February 2006.
• Convention in Peril? Riot Control Agents and the Chemical Weapons Ban – Kyle M. Ballard, Arms Control Today – September 2007.
• Incapacitating Chemical Weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention – Alan Pearson, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation – Nov 18, 2007.
• News Analysis: Chemical Weapons Parlay’s Outcome Uncertain – Oliver Meier, Arms Control Today – March 2008.