International Organizations and Their Host States : : Aspects of Their Legal Relationship / / A. S. Muller.

• Superior document: Legal Aspects of International Organizations Series ; Volume 21
• VerfasserIn: Muller, A. S., 1930-
• Place / Publishing House: The Hague, Netherlands : : Kluwer Law International,, [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Legal aspects of international organization ; Volume 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 pages)

Since 1945 there has been a tremendous growth in the number of international organizations, leading to the development of a body of law regulating the relationship between the organizations and their host states. International Organizations and their Host States examines the relationship from a practical perspective.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Introductions and Definitions -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. General Scope of the Study: the Parties -- 2.1. The first limitation: international organizations -- 2.2. The second limitation: the entity, not the persons -- 2.3. Subsidiary organs of the organization -- 2.4. The state -- 2.5. Summarizing -- 3. Development of the Law -- 4. The Nature of the Relationship between International Organizations and their Host States -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Host Arrangements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Host Agreements Constituent Treaties -- 3. Host Agreements and Multilateral Conventions -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The General Convention -- 3.3. The Specialized Agencies Convention -- 3.4. Other multilateral conventions on privileges and immunities -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 4. Host agreements and Supplemental or Additional Agreements -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The United Nations -- 4.3. The Specialized Agencies -- 4.4. Other organizations -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 5. Host agreements and International Customary Law and Decisions of International Tribunals -- 5.1. International customary law -- 5.2. Decisions of international tribunals -- 5.3. Conclusion -- 6. Host Agreements, National Legislation and Decisions of National Tribunals -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Laws enacted in connection with the host agreement -- 6.3. The general law of the land -- 6.4. Decisions of national tribunals -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. A Hierarchy of Norms? -- 8. Concluding Observations -- Part II: Legal Personality -- Chapter 3 Legal Personality of International Organizations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Legal Personality on the International Level -- 2.1. When does an international organization have international legal personality?.

2.2. What consequences, if any, result from international legal personality? -- 2.3. Conclusion -- 3. National Legal Personality -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The capacities and their contents -- 3.2.1. The capacity to contract -- 3.2.2. The capacity to acquire and dispose of immovable and movable property -- 3.2.3. The capacity to institute legal proceedings -- 3.2.4. Concluding -- 3.3. Codification and application in practice -- 3.3.1. The United States -- 3.3.2. Switzerland -- 3.3.3. The United Kingdom -- 3.3.4. The Netherlands -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. General Conclusion -- Part III: The Seat, Privileges, and Immunities -- Chapter 4 The Seat of International Organizations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Description of the Seat -- 2.1. The provisions used in host arrangements -- 2.2. The provisions on the seat in their practical setting -- 3. Laws applying to the Seat -- 3.1. The myth -- 3.2. Provisions in host arrangements -- 3.3. The right of the organization to issue regulations -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. Owner, Tenant or other User? -- 5. Supply of Public Services and other Amenities -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Immunity From Legal Process -- 1. Introduction -- 2. International Immunity and Functional Necessity -- 3. Immunity From Legal Process in Host Arrangements -- 4. Waiver of Immunity -- 5. Jurisdictional Immunity in Practice -- 6. Settlement of Private Law Disputes -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Inviolability of Premises, Assets and Archives of the Organization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Inviolability of Premises, Assets and Grounds of the Organization -- 2.1. What is inviolable? -- 2.2. No entry without permission -- 2.3. Emergency and national security situations -- 2.4. Protection of the seat by the host state -- 2.5. Interference through legal and quasi-legal means -- 3. Inviolability of the Archives -- 4. Conclusion.

Chapter 7 Freedom of Communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scope of the Privilege -- 3. Abstention and Protection -- 4. Extent of the Official Communications and Publications -- 5. Means of Communication -- 5.1. The diplomatic bag -- 5.2. Radio, post, railway and airport -- 6. Priority treatment for Communications -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Fiscal, Customs, and Financial Immunities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fiscal Immunities: Contents -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Direct taxes -- 2.2.1. Direct taxes and public utility services -- 2.2.2. Direct taxes and social security contributions -- 2.2.3. Indirect direct taxes -- 2.3. Indirect taxes -- 3. Exemptions from Customs Duties and All Export and Import Restrictions -- 4. Freedom to Hold, Transfer, and Convert Funds, Gold and Currency -- 5. Conclusion -- Part IV: Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Final Conclusion -- 1. The Starting Point: Host Arrangements -- 2. The Substantive Provisions -- 2.1. Legal personality -- 2.2. The seat -- 2.3. Jurisdictional immunity -- 2.4. Inviolability -- 2.5. Communications -- 2.6. Fiscal, customs, and financial immunities -- 2.7. Miscellaneous: the settlement of disputes -- 3. The Host Arrangement and its Contents: Underlying Concepts and Principles -- 4. An Outlook to the Future -- Bibliography -- Index.