Law on the Vienna Convention of 18 April 1961 on Diplomatic Relations

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DiplBezÜbkG

Date of completion: 06.08.1964

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" Law on the Vienna Convention of 18 April 1961 on Diplomatic Relations of 6 August 1964 (BGBl. 957), which was established by Article 4 of the Law of 18 June 1997 (BGBl. I p. 1430).

Status:

Amended by Art. 4 G v. 18.6.1997 I 1430

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With the approval of the Federal Council, the Bundestag has adopted the following law: Unofficial table of contents

Species 1

The Convention on Diplomatic Relations signed in Vienna on 18 April 1961 by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Optional Protocol on the settlement of disputes from the same day, and the Convention on the settlement of disputes, signed in New York on 28 March 1962, by the The Federal Republic of Germany signed the Vienna Optional Protocol on Nationality Issues of 18 April 1961. The Convention and the two Optional Protocols shall be published below. Unofficial table of contents

Type 2

(1) In order to implement Article 47 (2) of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961, the Federal Government is authorized to:

a)

to grant foreign missions and their members, on the basis of a special agreement with the sending State, further diplomatic privileges and immunities on the basis of reciprocity, by means of the Legislative Decree;

b)

, by means of a regulation on the production and guarantee of reciprocity, to determine that the privileges, immunities and other rights of foreign missions and their members, as agreed in the Vienna Convention, are agreed upon in the Federal Republic of Germany Germany shall not be granted or not fully granted, in so far as the sending states apply the Vienna Convention to the Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany and its members, which are existing with them. In particular, the Federal Government is empowered to subject the activities of foreign missions and its members in the Federal Republic of Germany by means of a legal regulation of the type or effect to be subject to the same restrictions as those applicable to the the activities of the mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in the sending State shall apply. The Regulation may contain provisions on the procedure and on the implementation of the measures provided for.

(2) In cases where a notification is to take place pursuant to Article 9 of the Vienna Convention of 18 April 1961 on diplomatic relations or measures are to be taken to avoid such notification, the Federal Foreign Office may Head of a mission or a dispatched member of a mission shall state that and on the basis of what evidence a member of the mission's staff or a member of the mission is accused of a criminal offence or of a criminal offence, or to have committed unlawfulness. The same shall apply in the case of indications of other misconduct which are contrary to the obligations of a member of the staff of a mission. Unofficial table of contents

Art 3

This law shall also apply in the Land of Berlin, provided that the Land Berlin determines the application of this law. Legal orders issued pursuant to this Act shall apply in the Land of Berlin pursuant to Section 14 of the Third Transfer Act of 4 January 1952 (Bundesgesetzbl. I p. 1). Unofficial table of contents

Species 4

This law shall enter into force on the day after it is announced. The date on which the Convention shall enter into force for the Federal Republic of Germany in accordance with its Article 51 and the two Optional Protocols pursuant to Articles 8 and 6 shall be published in the Federal Law Gazly.