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Fifty-sixth Session (3 May to 4 June and 5 July to 6 August 2004)
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The International Law Commission held its fifty-sixth session at Geneva, Switzerland, from 3 May to 4 June and 5 July to 6 August 2004 in accordance with General Assembly resolution 58/77 of 9 December 2003 (E, F, S, R, C, A).
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At its 2803rd meeting, held on 25 May 2004, the Commission established a drafting committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Rodríguez- Cedeño, on the topic. At the same meeting, the Commission referred draft articles 4 to 7 to the Drafting Committee. At
its 2610th meeting, held on 4 June 2004, the Commission considered
the report of the Chairman of the Drafting Committee (A/CN.4/L.648
(E,
F,
S,
R,
C,
A)
and Corr.1 (English
only)) and adopted on first reading the following draft articles:
Article 4 (General rule on attribution of conduct to an international
organization/Règle générale en matière
d'imputation d'un comportement à une organisation internationale),
article 5 (Conduct of organs or agents placed at the disposal
of an international organization by a State or another international
organization/ Comportement des organes ou agents mis à
la disposition d'une organisation internationale par un État
ou une autre organisation internationale), article 6 (Excess
of authority or contravention of instructions/ Excès
de pouvoir ou comportement contraire aux instructions), article
7 (Conduct acknowledged and adopted by an international organization
as its own/Comportement reconnu et adopté comme sien
par une organisation internationale).
The
Commission considered the fifth report of the Special
Rapporteur on the topic, Mr. John Dugard, (A/CN.4/538
(E,
F,
S,
R,
C,
A))
at its 2791st to 2796th meetings, held from 3 to 11 May
2004.
At its 2792nd meeting, held on 4 May 2004, the Commission established a drafting committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Rodríguez Cedeño, on the topic. At its 2794th meeting, held on 6 May, the Commission referred draft article 26 together with the alternative formulation for article 21 to the Drafting Committee. At its 2796th meeting, held on 11 May 2004, the Commission recommended that the Drafting Committee consider elaborating a provision on the connection between the protection of ships crews and diplomatic protection. At
its 2806th meeting, held on 28 May 2004, the Commission
considered the report of the Chairman of the Drafting
Committee (A/CN.4/L.647 (E,
F,
S,
R,
C,
A)
and Add.1 (E,
F,
S,
R,
C,
A);
Statement
by the Chairman of the Drafting Committee, made
(in Spanish)) and adopted, on first reading, a complete
set of draft articles on Diplomatic protection (article
1 (Definition and scope/Définition et champ
d'application), article 2 (Right to exercise diplomatic
protection/Droit d'exercer la protection diplomatique),
article 3 (Protection by the State of nationality/Protection
par l'État de la nationalité), article
4 (State of nationality of a natural person/État
de la nationalité d'une personne physique),
article 5 (Continuous nationality/Continuité
de la nationalité), article 6 (Multiple nationality
and claim against a third State/Multiple nationalité
et réclamation à léncontre
d'un État tiers), article 7 (Multiple nationality
and claim against a State of nationality/Multiple
nationalité et réclamation à
l'encontre d'un État de nationalité),
article 8 (Stateless persons and refugees/ Apatrides
et réfugiés), article 9 (State of
nationality of a corporation/État de nationalité
d'une société), article 10 (Continuous
nationality of a corporation/ Continuité
de la nationalité d'une société),
article 11 (Protection of shareholders/ Protection
des actionnnaires), article 12 (Direct injury to
shareholders/Atteinte directe aux droits des actionnnaires),
article 13 (Other legal persons/Autres personnes
morales), article 14 (Exhaustion of local remedies/Épuisement
des recours internes), article 15 (Category of claims/Catégorie
de réclamations), article 16 (Exceptions
to the local remedies rule/Exceptions à la
règle de l'épuisement des recours
internes), article 17 (Actions or procedures other
than diplomatic protection/Actions ou procedures
autres que la protection diplomatique), article
18 (Special treaty provisions/Dispositions conventionnelles
spéciales) and article 19 (Ships' crews/Équipages
des navires)).
The Commission considered the second report of the Special Rapporteur on the topic, Mr. Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao, (A/CN.4/540 (E, F, S, R, C, A)) at its 2804th to 2805th and 2807th to 2809th meetings, held from 26 May to 3 June 2004. The
Commission decided to establish a Working Group on the
topic at its 2809th meeting, held on 3 June 2004. The
Special Rapporteur, Mr. P. S. Rao, introduced the report
of the Working Group (A/CN.4/L.661 (E,
F,
S,
R,
C,
A)),
at the 2815th meeting, held on 9 July 2004. At the same
meeting, the Commission established a drafting committee,
under the chairmanship of Mr. Rodríguez Cedeño,
on the topic. The Commission took note of the report of
the Working Group and referred the eight draft principles
proposed by the Working Group to the Drafting Committee.
At
its 2822nd meeting, held on 23 July 2004, the Commission
considered the report of the Drafting Committee (A/CN.4/L.662
(E,
F,
S,
R,
C,
A))
and adopted on first reading the preamble and a complete
set of draft principles (Principle 1 (Scope of application/Champ
d'application), Principle 2 (Use of terms/Termes employés),
Principle 3 (Objective/Objectif), Principle 4 (Prompt
and adequate compensation/ Indemnisation prompte et adéquate),
Principle 5 (Response measures/Mesures d'intervention),
Principle 6 (International and domestic remedies/Recours
internes et internationaux), Principle 7 (Development
of specific international regimes/Élaboration de
régimes internationaux spéciaux) and Principle
8/Implementation/Application)).
The Commission decided to establish a Working Group on the topic, under the chairmanship of Mr. Alain Pellet, at its 2818th meeting, held on 16 July 2004 At
its 2808th meeting, held on 2 June 2004, the Commission established
a drafting committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Rodríguez
Cedeño, on the topic.
At
its 2810th meeting, held on 4 June 2004, the Commission considered
the report of the Drafting Committee on Reservations to treaties
(A/CN.4/L.649 (E,
F,
S,
R,
C,
A))
and adopted on first reading the following draft guidelines:
2.3.5 (Widening of the scope of a reservation/Aggravation de
la portée d'une réserve), 2.4.9 (Modification
of an interpretative declaration/Modification d'une déclaration
interprétative), 2.4.10 (Limitation and widening of the
scope of a conditional interpretative declaration/Atténuation
et aggravation de la portée d'une déclaration
interprétative conditionnelle), 2.5.12 (Withdrawal of
an interpretative declaration/Retrait d'une déclaration
interprétative) and 2.5.13 (Withdrawal of a conditional
interpretative declaration/Retrait d'une déclaration
interprétative conditionnelle).
The
Commission decided to establish a Working Group on Transboundary
Groundwater at its 2797th meeting, held on 12 May 2004.
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