Oct
2009
Draft Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations

The 60th anniversary event, Source: The ILC's website
The International Law Commission has just made electronically available the Report on the work of its sixty-first session that took place from 4 May to 5 June and from 6 July to 7 August 2009.
The Report generally discusses the responsibility of international organizations, including the text of the Draft Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations that embraces:
● Part One: Introduction
● Part Two: The Internationally Wrongful Act of an International Organization
Chapter I: General principles
Chapter II: Attribution of conduct to an international organization
Chapter III: Breach of an international obligation
Chapter IV: Responsibility of an international organization in connection with the act of a state or another international organization
Chapter V: Circumstances precluding wrongfulness
● Part Three: Content of the International Responsibility of an International Organization
Chapter I: General principles
Chapter II: Reparation for injury
Chapter III: Serious breaches of obligations under peremptory norms of general international law
● Part Four: The Implementation of the International Responsibility of an International Organization
Chapter I: Invocation of the responsibility of an international organization
Chapter II: Countermeasures
● Part Five: Responsibility of a State in Connection with the Act of an International Organization
● Part Six: General Provisions
The Report also discusses the following topics:
● Reservations to treaties
● Expulsion of aliens
● Protection of persons in the event of disasters
● Shared natural resources
● The obligation to extradite or prosecute
● Immunity of state officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction
● The most-favoured-nation clause
● Treaties over time
The Report is available at http://www.un.org/law/ilc and http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/reports/2009/2009report.htm