(a) A variety of establishments specializing in conventional ammunitions were involved in the design and production of munitions and their components for Iraq's chemical weapons programme; some of these munitions were later adapted by Iraq's biological weapons programme as delivery means of biological warfare agents;
a) Varias empresas públicas especializadas en munición convencional trabajaban en diseñar y producir munición y sus componentes para el programa de armas químicas; más tarde, parte de esa munición la adaptó el programa de armas biológicas para cargarla con agentes biológicos;