---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6727"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6727"
heading: "National security exception"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6727"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation"
  - "Subchapter II — Inspections"
---

# §6727. National security exception


Consistent with the objective of eliminating [chemical weapons](/usc/22/6701.md?p=1), the President may deny a request to inspect any facility in the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) in cases where the President determines that the inspection may pose a threat to the national security interests of the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title III, § 307, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–878.)