The German law on co-operation with the ICC

International Criminal Law Review

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 195-212

  Wilkitzki, Peter ^a  

^a Division in Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice   (Germany)

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EID: 34248080456     PISSN: 1567536X     EISSN: 15718123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157181202400454718     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Government bill: "Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Ausfuehrung des Roemischen Statuts des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofes vom 17. Juli 1998", Bundesrat Drucksache (document) 30/02;
2. Bundestag document 14/8527 and 14/8888;
3. Bundesrat document 361/02, first reading 22 March 2002; last reading 25 April 2002;
4. 2nd Bundesrat reading 31 May 2002; entering into force scheduled for 1 July 2002 (art. 13).
5. In significant contrast with the wealth of comments on the Code of Crimes against International Law (footnote 8), only three essays on the draft on co-operation have been published so far, i.e.: Joerg Meissner, Die Zusammenarbeit Deutschlands mit dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof, Humanitaeres Voelkerrecht - Informationsschriften (HuV) 15(2002) 1, p. 35
6. and Jan MacLean, der Entwurf eines Gesetzes ueber die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof, Zeitschrift fuer Rechtspolitik (ZRP) 35(2002) 5.
7. Another essay by Foerg Meissner will be published in Nene Justiz (2002) 7.
8. United Nations, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court of 17 July 1998; English and French text plus German translation of the Statute published as annex to German ratification instruments (see footnote 4), i.e., Bundestag document 14/2682 (including explanatory notes) and Federal Law Gazette (BGBl.) 2000 II, p. 1393; for detailed comments see Otto Triffterer (ed.), Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1999; comprehensive information on ICC at www.un.org/law/icc/index.hmtl.
9. BGBl. 2000 II, p. 1393;
10. Government bill in Bundestag document 14/2682.
11. BGBl. 2000 I, p. 1633;
12. Government bill in Bundestag document 14/2668.
13. BGBl. 1995 I, p. 485; Government bill in Bundestag document 13/57.
14. For detailed comments see, e.g., Claus Kress, in: Heinrich Gruetzner/Paul-Guenter Poetz, Internationaler Rechtshilfeverkehr in Strafsachen, 2nd edition (loose-leaf), vol. III, 27(2002)
15. Wolfgang Schomburg/Otto Lagodny, Internationale Rechtshilfe in Strafsachen, 3rd edition, 1998, p. 1187
16. and Peter Wilkitzki, in: Das deutsche Bundesrecht (loose-leaf), vol. II, B 76(2001).
17. Almost identical with the law on co-operation with the ICTY is the German law of 8 May 1998 on co-operation with the International Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), BGBl. 1998 I, p. 843; Government bill in Bundestag document 13/7953.
18. See (for drafting history and for German co-operation practice with the Tribunal in general) Peter Wilkitzki, The Contribution of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Laender to the work of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in: Datuk L. C. Vorah (ed.), Essays in honour of Judge A. Cassese, forthcoming 2002.
19. "Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Einfuehrung des Voelkerstrafgesetzbuches", Bundesrat document 29/02;
20. Bundestag document 14/8524 and 14/8892;
21. Bundesrat document 360/02; parliamentary readings and entering into force parallel to those of the present law (see footnote 1).
22. Bundesrat documents 222/02 and 223/02.
23. "Gesetz ueber die internationale Rechtshilfe in Strafsachen" of 23 December 1982 (replacing a preceding German law of 1929), BGBl. 1982 I, p. 2071
24. (newly published in BGBl. 1994 I, p. 1537).
25. For details see Commentaries by Theo Vogler/Peter Wilkitzki in Gruetzner/Poetz, Internationaler Rechtshilfeverkehr in Strafsachen, and by Wolfgang Schomburg/Otto Lagodny, 3rd ed. (both Commentaries as quoted in footnote 6). On modifications of this law made by Art. 5, 6 of the present law, see below (footnote 29).
26. On the rule of speciality in the context of the RS see in general Wilkitzki's comments on Article 101 in Triffterer's Commentary (op. cit., footnote 2).
27. For the text of the warrant of arrest including freezing order, see at www.un.org/icty/milosevic/decision-e/052499rev. htm.
28. Implemented by formal agreements on competence between the Federation and the Laender, most recently "Zustaendigkeitsvereinbarung" of 1 July 1993 (Bundesanzeiger p. 6383).