Amending the Kyoto Protocol to confer privileges and immunities

This need for operational independence is why privileges and immunities are accorded to international organizations.

Decision of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol to confer privileges and immunities

The Headquarters Agreement grants to officials and representatives to the COP the privileges and immunities granted to United Nations officials and representatives of Members to the United Nations under the General Convention.

Privileges and immunities to locally recruited staff of the Centre will be accorded in accordance with the provisions laid down in the Convention on Immunities and Privileges of the United Nations of 1946.

(f) The privileges and immunities enjoyed by the United Nations by virtue of Article 105 of the Charter are conferred in the interests of the Organization.

The conferring of privileges and immunities could be achieved through the adoption of an amendment to the Kyoto Protocol pursuant to its Article 20.

To request Arab Member States that were previously granted exemptions by the Economic and Social Council to desist from applying those exemptions without restrictions or conditions

Decision of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, supported by unilateral declarations of Parties, to confer privileges and immunities

2.6.3.2.3 Exemptions .

It was emphasized that it was still only religious activities, not the knowledge thereof, that were subject to exemption.

Privileges and immunities in the climate change process The Convention and the Kyoto Protocol do not contain any provisions conferring privileges and immunities on their organs or on officials and representatives serving on these organs.

Article 5

In particular, they shall be accorded the privileges and immunities specified in section 22 of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations of 13 February 1946, subject to the provisions of section 23 of that Convention.

Article 17, entitled Immunities and facilities accorded to all officials , states as follows

The status, privileges and immunities of the Organization, of its Executive Director, its staff and experts, and of representatives of members while in the territory of Japan shall continue to be governed by the Headquarters Agreement between the Government of Japan and the International Tropical Timber Organization signed at Tokyo on 27 February 1988, with such amendments as may be necessary for the proper functioning of this Agreement.

Partial exemption arrangements do not secure these parental rights, as those parts of tuition that may be exempted from, still are imparted to the student.

In other words, the immunity is jurisdictional immunity from national courts.

2. A State shall not be considered to have consented to the exercise of jurisdiction by a court of another State if it intervenes in a proceeding or takes any other step for the sole purpose of

B. Personal immunity

Revision of immunity mechanisms

(b) persons connected with them.

Two or more States may jointly grant benefits of immunity when a transnational organization is under investigation.Paragraphs 4 and 5, on cooperation with law enforcement authorities, were not discussed at the informal preparatory meeting.

When the grounds on which the exemption was granted cease to exist, the Ministry of the Interior withdraws the exemption.

67. Conventions on the privileges and immunities of the United Nations and of the specialized agencies

They proposed that exemptions should be granted through the end of the following session of the Assembly, that is, to September of the following year.

They proposed that exemptions should be granted through the end of the following session of the Assembly, that is, to September of the following year.

(ii) Exemptions

Violations of parliamentary immunity

XI. PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES

In exchange for limited immunity.

In 1946, the General Assembly adopted the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations (the General Convention), which establishes the detailed privileges and immunities needed by the United Nations.

NOTE An element of professional judgment is required to determine if a substance is exempt under this paragraph.

The possibility of exemptions raised questions of equity and added to the complexity of the task.

In return for these privileges and immunities, as is the case under the General Convention, the secretariat is obliged, under Article 3 (b) of the Headquarters Agreement, to make provision for the appropriate settlement of disputes arising out of contracts to which the secretariat is party and disputes involving an official of the secretariat who, by reason of his or her official position enjoys immunity which has not been waived.

State immunity from measures of constraint

The Jurisdictional Immunities Convention applies to the immunity of a State and its property from the jurisdiction of the courts of another State.

The Organization shall have legal personality.

Question of privileges and immunities

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1. Question of privileges and immunities

Some members were not convinced that a sufficient case had been made to grant an exemption under Article 19 to the Comoros.

In the course of the negotiations, he stated that the Geneva authorities were prepared to grant the United Nations the benefit of the same exemptions and the same privileges as had previously been granted to other international institutions .