Meeting documents
Meeting documents
| LIST OF PARTICIPANTS | CAHDI (2026) LP1 PROV ® | |
| 1. | INTRODUCTION | |
| 1.1. | Opening remarks | |
| 1.2. | Adoption of the agenda | |
| • | Draft agenda | CAHDI (2026) OJ 1 prov ® |
| • | Draft annotated agenda | CAHDI (2026) OJ 1 annotated prov ® |
| 1.3. | Adoption of the report of the 69th meeting | |
| • | Draft revised report of the 69th meeting of the CAHDI | CAHDI (2025) 19 prov rev |
| 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. | Committee of Ministers’ decisions of relevance to the CAHDI’s activities | |
| • | Committee of Ministers’ decisions of relevance to the CAHDI’s activities | CAHDI (2026) 1 |
| 3. | CAHDI DATABASES | |
| 3.1. | Settlement of disputes of a private character to which an international organisation is a party | |
| CAHDI-Database Settlement of disputes of a private character to which an international organisation is a party | ||
| 3.2. | Immunity of state-owned cultural property on loan | |
| CAHDI-Database Immunity of state-owned cultural property on loan | ||
| 3.3. | Immunities of special missions | |
| CAHDI-Database Immunities of special missions | ||
| 3.4. | Service of process on a foreign State | |
| CAHDI-Database Service of process on a foreign State | ||
| 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 | |
| CAHDI-Database 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-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 | |
| 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” | ||
| 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. | 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 September 2025 to 28 February 2026) | PIL (2026) 1 |
| 5.2. | 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 AND SOFT LAW INSTRUMENTS | |
| 6.1. | Exchanges of views on topical issues related to treaty law | |
| - | Discussion on non-legally binding instruments 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 and international organisations to the questionnaire “The Practice of States and international organisations regarding non-legally binding agreements” | CAHDI (2025) 4 prov ® |
| • | Compilation of national approaches and materials regarding non-legally binding instruments | CAHDI (2025) 3 prov ® |
| • | Revised analysis of the replies by States and international organisations to the questionnaire “The practice of States and international organisations regarding non-legally binding agreements”, prepared by the Secretariat based on the previous report by Prof. Andreas Zimmermann (University of Potsdam/Germany) | CAHDI (2025) 5 prov |
| - | Drafting Group on non-legally binding instruments (NLBIs) | |
| • | Progress Report on the work of the Drafting Group on NLBIs | CAHDI (2026) 2 ® |
| • | Methodology for a Best Practices Compendium on NLBIs | CAHDI (2025) 15 ® |
| - | 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 ® |
| • | Replies by States to the questionnaire “Treaties not requiring parliamentary approval” | CAHDI (2026) 6 prov ® |
| • | Main trends arising from the replies to the questionnaire “Treaties not requiring parliamentary approval”, prepared by the Secretariat | CAHDI (2026) 5 prov ® |
| - | Exchange of views on soft law instruments | |
| • | Questionnaire on “International soft law: implications for Legal Departments of Ministries for Foreign Affairs”, prepared by the delegation of Italy | CAHDI (2023) 19 ® |
| • | Replies to the questionnaire on “International soft law: implications for Legal Departments of Ministries for Foreign Affairs" | CAHDI (2025) 6 prov ® |
| • | Chair’s summary “Online Seminar on Legislative Guides, Model Laws, Recommendations, Principles: A ‘Soft Multilateral Law-Making’ for International Governance?” | Chair’s summary |
| 6.2. | Law and practice relating to reservations and interpretative declarations concerning international treaties: European Observatory of Reservations to International Treaties | |
| - | Suspension of multilateral treaties | |
| Non Paper on Suspension of multilateral treaties prepared by the Delegation of Switzerland | ||
| - | List of reservations and declarations to international treaties subject to objection | |
| • | List of reservations and declarations to international treaties subject to objection | CAHDI (2026) 3 ® |
| • | Reactions to reservations and declarations to international treaties previously examined by the CAHDI | CAHDI (2026) Inf 1 |
| • | Recommendation No. R (99) 13 on responses to inadmissible reservations to international treaties | |
| 7. | CURRENT ISSUES OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW | |
| 7.1. | Topical issues of public international law | |
| - | Exchange of views with Professor Danae Azaria, University College London (UCL) on State silence in international law | |
| - | Exchange of views on the aggression against Ukraine with input from: | |
| o | Ambassador Arjen Uijterlinde, Special Envoy of the Netherlands for the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine | |
| o | Professor Chiara GIORGETTI, University of Richmond, member of the Board of the Register of Damage for Ukraine | |
| 7.2. | Peaceful settlement of disputes | |
| • | Means of Peaceful Settlement of Disputes | CAHDI (2026) 4 ® |
| 7.3. | The work of the International Law Commission (ILC) | |
| 7.4. | Consideration of current issues of international humanitarian law | |
| 8. | OTHER | |
| 8.1. | Place, date and agenda of the 71st meeting of the CAHDI | |
| 8.2. | Any other business | |
| 8.3. | Adoption of the Abridged Report and closing of the 70th meeting |
