Headquarters Agreement between the International Criminal Court and the host State:Article 1 Use of terms

Headquarters Agreement between the International Criminal Court and the host State

Article 1 Use of terms

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For the purpose of this Agreement:

a)

‘the Statute’ means the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court adopted on 17 July 1998 by the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court;

b)

‘the Court’ means the International Criminal Court established by the Statute; for the purpose of this Agreement, the Secretariat shall be an integral part of the Court;

c)

‘the host State’ means the Kingdom of the Netherlands;

d)

‘the parties’ means the Court and the host State;

e)

‘States Parties’ means States Parties to the Statute;

f)

‘representatives of States’ means all delegates, deputy delegates, advisers, technical experts, secretaries, and any other accredited members of delegations;

g)

‘the Assembly’ means the Assembly of States Parties;

h)

‘the Bureau’ means the Bureau of the Assembly;

i)

‘subsidiary bodies’ means the bodies established by the Assembly or the Bureau;

j)

‘the officials of the Court’ means the judges, the Prosecutor, the Deputy Prosecutors, the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar and staff of the Court;

k)

‘the judges’ means the judges of the Court elected by the Assembly in accordance with article 36, paragraph 6, of the Statute;

l)

‘the Presidency’ means the organ composed of the President and the First and Second Vice-Presidents of the Court in accordance with article 38, paragraph 3, of the Statute;

m)

‘the President’ means the President of the Court elected by the judges in accordance with article 38, paragraph 1, of the Statute;

n)

‘the Prosecutor’ means the Prosecutor elected by the Assembly in accordance with article 42, paragraph 4, of the Statute;

o)

‘the Deputy Prosecutors’ means the Deputy Prosecutors elected by the Assembly in accordance with article 42, paragraph 4, of the Statute;

p)

‘the Registrar’ means the Registrar elected by the judges in accordance with article 43, paragraph 4, of the Statute;

q)

‘the Deputy Registrar’ means the Deputy Registrar elected by the judges in accordance with article 43, paragraph 4, of the Statute;

r)

‘staff of the Court’ means the staff of the Registry and the Office of the Prosecutor as referred to in article 44 of the Statute. Staff of the Registry includes staff of the Presidency and of Chambers, and staff of the Secretariat;

s)

‘the Secretariat’ means the Secretariat of the Assembly established by resolution ICC-ASP/2/Res.3 dated 12 September 2003;

t)

‘interns’ means graduates or postgraduates who, not being members of staff of the Court, have been accepted by the Court into the internship programme of the Court for the purpose of performing certain tasks for the Court without receiving a salary from the Court;

u)

‘visiting professionals’ means persons who, not being members of staff of the Court, have been accepted by the Court into the visiting professional programme of the Court for the purpose of providing expertise and performing certain tasks for the Court without receiving a salary from the Court;

v)

‘counsel’ means defence counsel and the legal representatives of victims;

w)

‘witnesses’, ‘victims’ and ‘experts’ means persons designated as such by the Court;

x)

‘the premises of the Court’ means buildings, parts of buildings and areas, including installations and facilities made available to, maintained, occupied or used by the Court in the host State in connection with its functions and purposes, including detention of a person, or in connection with meetings of the Assembly, including its Bureau and subsidiary bodies;

y)

‘the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ means the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the host State;

z)

‘the competent authorities’ means national, provincial, municipal and other competent authorities under the laws, regulations and customs of the host State;

aa)

‘the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the Court’ means the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court referred to in article 48 of the Statute and adopted at the third meeting of the first session of the Assembly held from 3 to 10 September 2002 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York;

bb)

‘the Vienna Convention’ means the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961;

cc)

‘the Rules of Procedure and Evidence’ means the Rules of Procedure and Evidence adopted in accordance with article 51 of the Statute.

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