Meeting documents

Back 57th meeting - Strasbourg, 21-22 March 2019

I. INTRODUCTION
1. Opening of the meeting by the Chair
2. Adoption of the agenda
● Draft agenda CAHDI (2019) OJ 1 prov ®
● Draft annotated agenda CAHDI (2019) OJ 1 annotated prov ®
3. Adoption of the report of the 56th meeting
● Draft meeting report 56th meeting CAHDI (2018) 28 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. Draft Terms of Reference of the CAHDI for 2020-2021
● Draft Terms of Reference of the CAHDI for 2020-2021 to be adopted by the Committee of Ministers CAHDI (2019) 1 prov ®
b. 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) 2 rev ®
6. Immunities of States and international organisations
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 (2018) 20 prov ®
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) 10 prov ®
● Table of objections CAHDI (2019) 10 Addendum prov ®
● Reactions to reservations and declarations to international treaties previously examined by the CAHDI CAHDI (2019) Inf 1
● 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. Consideration of current issues of international humanitarian law
13. Developments concerning the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other international criminal tribunals
- Exchange of views with Judge Ivana HRDLIČKOVÁ, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Thursday, 21 March at 2.30pm)
● Developments concerning the International Criminal Court and other international criminal tribunals CAHDI (2019) 11 prov
14. Topical issues of international law
IV. OTHER
15. Place, date and agenda of the 58th meeting of the CAHDI: Strasbourg (France), 26-27 September 2019
16. Any other business
17. Adoption of the Abridged Report and closing of the 57th meeting