The
Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the
Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the use of
chemical and
biological weapons in international
armed conflicts. It was signed at
Geneva on 17 June 1925 and entered into force on 8 February 1928. It was registered in
League of Nations Treaty Series on 7 September 1929. The Geneva Protocol is a protocol to the Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War signed on the same date, and followed the
Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.