The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an international organization established in 1997 to implement the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands. OPCW is an international organization founded in 1997 to implement the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and is based in The Hague, the Netherlands, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for its work related to the prohibition and destruction of chemical weapons.