Meeting documents

Back 58th meeting - Strasbourg, 26-27 September 2019

I. INTRODUCTION
1. Opening of the meeting by the Chair of the CAHDI, Mr Petr VÁLEK
2. Adoption of the agenda
● Draft agenda CAHDI (2019) OJ 2 prov ®
● Draft annotated agenda CAHDI (2019) OJ 2 annotated prov ®
3. Adoption of the report of the 57th meeting
● Draft meeting report 57th meeting CAHDI (2019) 13 prov ®
4. Information provided by the Secretariat of the Council of Europe
II. ONGOING ACTIVITIES OF THE CAHDI
5. Committee of Ministers’ decisions of relevance to the CAHDI’s activities, including requests for CAHDI’s opinions
a. Revised Draft Terms of Reference of the CAHDI for 2020-2021
● Revised Draft Terms of Reference of the CAHDI for 2020-2021 to be adopted by the Committee of Ministers CAHDI (2019) 15 prov ®
b. Exchange of views between the Chair of the CAHDI and the Ministers’ Deputies
● Presentation by Mr Petr VÁLEK, Chair of the CAHDI, at the 1349th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies on 12 June 2019 CAHDI (2019) Inf 2
c. Other Committee of Ministers’ decisions of relevance to the CAHDI’s activities
● Committee of Ministers’ decisions of relevance to the CAHDI’s activities CAHDI (2019) 16 ®
6. Immunities of States and international organisations
- Presentation of the new CAHDI publication “Immunities of Special Missions” by Sir Michael WOOD and Mr Andrew SANGER (Friday, 27 September 9.30 am)
a. Topical issues related to immunities of States and International Organisations
- Settlement of disputes of a private character to which an International Organisation is a party
- Immunity of State owned cultural property on loan
- Immunities of special missions
- Service of process on a foreign State
● Settlement of disputes of a private character to which an international organisation is a party CAHDI (2014) 5 ®
● Comments by States on “Settlement of disputes of a private character to which an international organisation is a party” CAHDI (2019) 3 prov ®
● Summary of the main trends of the replies to the questionnaire on “Settlement of disputes of a private law character to which an international organisation is a party” and further examination of this issue, prepared by the delegation of the Netherlands CAHDI (2017) 21 ®
● Immunity of State Owned Cultural Property on Loan CAHDI (2013) 10 ®
● Replies by States to the Questionnaire on “Immunity of State owned cultural property on loan” CAHDI (2019) 4 prov ®
● “Immunities of special missions”, prepared by the delegation of the United Kingdom CAHDI (2013) 15 ®
● Replies by States to the Questionnaire on “Immunities of special missions” CAHDI (2019) 5 prov
● Analysis of the replies to the Questionnaire on service of process on a foreign State CAHDI (2014) 15 ®
● Replies by States to the Questionnaire on “Service of process on a foreign State” CAHDI (2019) 6 prov ®
b. UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property
c. State practice, case-law and updates of website entries
● Exchange of national practices on the possibility for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to raise public international law issues in procedures pending before national tribunals and related to States’ or international organisations’ immunities CAHDI (2019) 7 prov ®
7. Organisation and functions of the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
● Replies by States to the revised Questionnaire on “The organisation and functions of the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs” CAHDI (2019) 8 prov
8. National implementation measures of UN sanctions and respect for human rights
● Cases that have been submitted to national tribunals by persons or entities included in or removed from the lists established by the UN Security Council Sanctions Committees CAHDI (2019) 9 prov ®
9. Cases before the European Court of Human Rights involving issues of public international law
● Case law of the European Court of Human Rights related to Public International Law (from 1 January to 31 December 2018) PIL (2019) Case Law Appendix I
10. Peaceful settlement of disputes
● Means of Peaceful Settlement of Disputes CAHDI (2019) 14 ®
11. Law and practice relating to reservations and interpretative declarations concerning international treaties: European Observatory of Reservations to International Treaties
● List of reservations and declarations to international treaties subject to objection CAHDI (2019) 17 prov ®
● Table of objections CAHDI (2019) 17 Addendum prov ®
● Reactions to reservations and declarations to international treaties previously examined by the CAHDI CAHDI (2019) Inf 3
● Recommendation No. R (99) 13 on responses to inadmissible reservations to international treaties Recommendation No. R (99) 13
III. GENERAL ISSUES OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
12. The work of the International Law Commission (ILC)
- Presentation of the work of the International Law Commission (ILC) by Mr Pavel ŠTURMA, Chair of the ILC (Thursday, 26 September 2.30 pm)
- Exchange of views between the ILC, the Chair of the CAHDI and the Secretary to the CAHDI, Geneva (Switzerland), 31 May 2019
● Presentation by Mr Petr VÁLEK, Chair of the CAHDI, at the 71st Session of the ILC CAHDI (2019) Inf 4
● Presentation by Ms Marta REQUENA, Secretary to the CAHDI, at the 71st Session of the ILC CAHDI (2019) Inf 5
● Report of the ILC, 71st Session A/74/10
13. Consideration of current issues of international humanitarian law
14. Developments concerning the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other international criminal tribunals
● Developments concerning the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other international criminal tribunals CAHDI (2019) 11 prov
15. Topical issues of international law
IV OTHER
16. Election of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the CAHDI
● Election of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the CAHDI CAHDI (2019) 18
17. Place, date and agenda of the 59th meeting of the CAHDI: Strasbourg (France), 26-27 March 2020
18. Any other business
19. Adoption of the Abridged Report and closing of the 58th meeting