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Law No. 25 Of 6 March 1991 Romania Acceptance By The Statute Of The Hague Conference On Private International Law

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 25 din 6 martie 1991 pentru acceptarea de către România a Statutului Conferinţei de la Haga de drept internaţional privat

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LEGE No. 25 of March 6, 1991 for the acceptance by Romania of the Statute of the Hague Conference of Private International Law
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR NO. 54 of 19 March 1991



+ Article 1 Romania accepts the Statute of the Hague Conference of Private International Law, adopted at the 7th Session of the Conference of 1951, which entered into force on July 15, 1955. + Article 2 In application of art. 6 of the Statute, the Ministry of Justice is designated as the national body for carrying out communications with the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference of Private International Law. STATUS *) OF THE HAGUE CONFERENCE by private international law Governments of the states listed below: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, Finland, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Spain and Sweden, considering the permanent nature of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, wanting to emphasize this character, appreciating for this purpose, that it is desirable to award the conference a status, have agreed on the following provisions: + Article 1 The Hague Conference aims to act for the progressive unification of rules of private international law. + Article 2 They are members of the Hague Conference of International Private Law, the states that have already participated in one or more sessions of the conference and which accept the present status. Member States may become members of any other States whose participation is of a legal interest in the proceedings of the Conference. The admission of new members shall be decided by the governments of the participating States, on the proposal of one or more of them, by a majority of the votes cast within a period of 6 months, counted from the day on which the governments were notified Proposal. Admission shall become final by the acceptance of the present status by the State concerned. + Article 3 The operation of the conference is provided by the Dutch State Commission, established by the Royal Decree of 20 February 1987, in order to promote the codification of private international The Commission shall ensure that it operates through a permanent office whose activities it leads. It shall examine all proposals intended to be included on the agenda of the conference. She is free to appreciate the priority to be given to these proposals. The state commission aims, after consulting the members of the conference, the date and the agenda of the sessions. It addresses the Government of the Netherlands for convening members. The regular sessions of the conference will take place as a rule, every 4 years In case of need the State Commission can, with the favorable opinion, of the members, ask the Government of the Netherlands to recognize the conference in extraordinary session. + Article 4 The permanent office is based in The Hague. He consists of a general secretary and two secretaries, of different nationalities, who are appointed by the Government of OLanda, on the recommendation of the State Commission. The Secretary-General and Secretaries will need to have appropriate legal knowledge and practical experience. The number of secretaries may be increased after consultation with the conference + Article 5 Under the direction of the State Commission, the Permanent Bureau is responsible a) with the preparation and organisation of the Hague Conference sessions and meetings of special committees; b) with the secretarial work of the sessions and of the meetings set out above; c) with all obligations that enter into the work of a secretariat. + Article 6 In order to facilitate communications between the members of the conference and the Permanent Bureau, the government of each of the members must designate a national body. The permanent office may correspond with all the national bodies so designated and with the competent international organisations. + Article 7 The Conference and in the interval between sessions, the State Commission may establish special commissions, in order to develop convention projects or study all private international law programs that enter the objectives of the conference. + Article 8 The operating and maintenance expenses of the Permanent Bureau and special commissions shall be distributed among the members of the conference, except for the travel and residence allowances of the delegates to the special commissions whose allowances enter the task of the represented governments + Article 9 The budget of the Permanent Bureau and Special Committees shall be subject, each year, to the approval of diplomatic representatives in the Hague of Members. These representatives shall also fix the allocation between the members of the expenditure set out by the budget for the latter. Diplomatic representatives come together for this purpose, under the presidency of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. + Article 10 The expenses resulting from ordinary sessions of the conference are borne by the Government of the Netherlands. In case of extraordinary session, the expenses are distributed among the conference members represented at the session. In all cases, the travel and residence allowances of the delegates shall be the responsibility of those governments. + Article 11 The usages of the conference shall continue to remain insofar as they do not contravene this Statute or Regulation + Article 12 Amendments may be made to this Statute if they are approved by two thirds of the members. + Article 13 The provisions of this Statute will be supplemented by a Regulation in order to ensure its execution. This Regulation will be established by the Permanent Bureau and subject to the approval of the governments of + Article 14 This Statute will be subject to the acceptance of the governments of the states that participated in one or more sessions of the conference. He will enter into force as soon as he is accepted by most of the states represented at the 7th session. The declaration of acceptance will be submitted to the Dutch Government, which will make it known to the governments concerned in the first paragraph of this article. It will be done, similarly, in the case of the admission of a new state, in the case of the declaration of acceptance of this state. + Article 15 Each member will be able to denounce this status after a period of 5 years from the date of its entry into force, under the conditions of art. 14 14 para. 1. The denunciation will have to be notified to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, at least 6 months before the expiry of the conference budget year, and will produce its effects on the expiry of that year, but only to the Member State that will be notified.