Meeting documents
Meeting documents
| CONVOCATION | 63rd CAHDI meeting | |
| 1. | INTRODUCTION | |
| 1.1. | Opening remarks | |
| 1.2. | Adoption of the agenda | |
| • | Draft agenda | CAHDI (2022) OJ 2 prov ® |
| • | Draft annotated agenda | CAHDI (2022) OJ 2 annotated prov |
| 1.3. | Adoption of the report of the 62nd meeting | |
| • | Draft report of the 62nd meeting of the CAHDI | CAHDI (2022) 10 prov |
| 1.4. | Information provided by the Secretariat of the Council of Europe | |
| - | Statement by Mr Jörg POLAKIEWICZ, Director of Legal Advice and Public International Law | |
| 2. | COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS’ DECISIONS WITH RELEVANCE FOR THE CAHDI INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR CAHDI’S OPINION | |
| 2.1. | Opinion of the CAHDI on Recommendation 2231 (2022) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) | |
| • | Opinion of the CAHDI on Recommendation 2231 (2022) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe – “The Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine: ensuring accountability for serious violations of international humanitarian law and other international crimes” | CAHDI (2022) 11 |
| 2.2. | Examination of the request by the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) to be granted participant status in the CAHDI | |
| • | Request for participant status to the CAHDI submitted by the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) | CAHDI (2022) 17 ® |
| 2.3. | Other Committee of Ministers’ decisions of relevance to the CAHDI’s activities | |
| • | Committee of Ministers’ decisions of relevance to the CAHDI’s activities | CAHDI (2022) 12 ® |
| 3. | CAHDI DATABASES AND QUESTIONNAIRES | |
| 3.1. | Settlement of disputes of a private character to which an international organisation is a party | |
| • | Settlement of disputes of a private character to which an international organisation is a party | CAHDI (2014) 5 ® |
| • | 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” | CAHDI (2017) 21 ® |
| • | Comments by States on “Settlement of disputes of a private character to which an international organisation is a party” | CAHDI (2020) 3 prov ® |
| • | Working document on “The settlement of disputes of a private character against international intergovernmental organisations: the experience of the Council of Europe and other organisations” | CAHDI (2020) 12 prov ® |
| 3.2. | Immunity of state-owned cultural property on loan | |
| • | 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 (2020) 4 prov ® |
| 3.3. | Immunities of special missions | |
| • | “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 (2020) 5 prov |
| 3.4. | Service of process on a foreign State | |
| • | 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 (2020) 6 prov ® |
| 3.5. | 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 | |
| • | 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 (2020) 7 prov ® |
| • | CAHDI-Database “The immunities of States and international organisations” | |
| 3.6. | 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 (2022) 6 prov |
| • | CAHDI-Database “The organisation and functions of the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs” | |
| 3.7. | The implementation of United Nations sanctions | |
| • | CAHDI-Database “Implementation of United Nations sanctions” | |
| 3.8. | Inquiry concerning the lifting of confidentiality of certain CAHDI questionnaires | |
| • | Replies by States to the inquiry concerning lifting confidentiality of certain CAHDI questionnaires | CAHDI (2022) 13 prov |
| 4. | IMMUNITIES OF STATES AND OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR IMMUNITY | |
| 4.1. | Exchanges of views on topical issues in relation to the subject matter of the item | |
| 4.2. | State practice and relevant case-law | |
| 5. | THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, CASES BEFORE THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES INVOLVING PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW | |
| 5.1. | EU accession to the ECHR – international law aspects | |
| - | Overview of the state of play in relation to the EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights | |
| 5.2. | Cases before the European Court of Human Rights involving issues of public international law | |
| 5.3. | 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 (2020) 9 prov ® |
| 6. | TREATY LAW | |
| 6.1. | Exchanges of views on topical issues related to treaty law | |
| - | Exchange of views on non-legally binding agreements in international law | |
| • | Questionnaire on “The Practice of States and international organisations regarding non-legally binding agreements”, prepared by the delegation of Germany | CAHDI (2022) 2 ® |
| • | Replies by States to the questionnaire “The Practice of States and international organisations regarding non-legally binding agreements” | CAHDI (2022) 14 prov ® |
| • | Option paper “Exchange of views on non-legally binding agreements in international law”, prepared by the delegation of Germany | CAHDI (2021) 17 ® |
| • | Chair’s summary “Expert Workshop on Non-Legally Binding Agreements in International Law” | Chair’s summary |
| - | Exchange of views on treaties not requiring parliamentary approval | |
| • | Questionnaire on “Treaties not requiring parliamentary approval”, prepared by the delegation of Slovenia | CAHDI (2022) 3 rev |
| - | Declarations implying the exclusion of any treaty-based relationship between the declaring State and another State party to the treaty in relation to which the declaration is formulated | |
| • | Revised document on declarations implying the exclusion of any treaty-based relationship between the declaring State and another State party to the treaty in relation to which the declaration is formulated | CAHDI (2022) 7 prov ® |
| 6.2. | 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 | |
| • | List of reservations and declarations to international treaties subject to objection | CAHDI (2022) 15 prov ® |
| • | Table of objections | CAHDI (2022) 15 Addendum prov ® |
| • | Reactions to reservations and declarations to international treaties previously examined by the CAHDI | CAHDI (2022) Inf 3 |
| • | Recommendation No. R (99) 13 on responses to inadmissible reservations to international treaties | Recommandation N° R (99) 13 |
| 7. | CURRENT ISSUES OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW | |
| 7.1. | Topical issues of public international law | |
| - | Exchange of views on the aggression in Ukraine | |
| 7.2. | Peaceful settlement of disputes | |
| • | Means of Peaceful Settlement of Disputes | CAHDI (2019) 14 ® |
| 7.3. | The work of the International Law Commission | |
| - | Exchange of views with Prof. Dire Tladi, Chair of the International Law Commission | |
| 7.4. | Consideration of current issues of international humanitarian law | |
| 7.5. | Developments concerning the international Criminal Court (ICC) and other international criminal tribunals | |
| • | Developments concerning the International Criminal Court and other international criminal tribunals | CAHDI (2022) 5 prov |
| 7.6. | The use of new technologies and international law | |
| - | Discussion on the application of international law in cyberspace with introductions into the subject matter from: | |
| o | Prof. Dapo Akande (Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the Blavatnik School of Government/University of Oxford) | |
| o | Dr Cordula Droege (Chief Legal Officer/Head of Legal Division, ICRC) | |
| o | H. E. Mr. Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota (Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN/Former Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace in the context of international security) [TBC] | |
| 8. | OTHER | |
| 8.1. | Election of the Chair and the Vice-Chair | |
| • | Election of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the CAHDI | CAHDI (2022) 16 |
| 8.2. | Place, date and agenda of the 64th meeting of the CAHDI | |
| 8.3. | Any other business | |
| - | Proposal by the delegation of Italy to include the issue of soft law instruments on the agenda of future CAHDI meetings | |
| • | Chair’s summary “Online Seminar on Legislative Guides, Model Laws, Recommendations, Principles: A ‘Soft Multilateral Law-Making’ for International Governance?” | Chair’s summary |
| 8.4. | Adoption of the Abridged Report and closing of the 63rd meeting |
