Party
Costa Rica added
- Signature: 25-06-2024
- Reservations / Declarations: No
- Objections: No
Mongolia added
- Signature: 24-06-2024
- Reservations / Declarations: No
- Objections: No
Democratic Republic of the Congo modified
France modified
- Reservations / Declarations: Yes
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added reservation
Date unknown
Reservation: With regard to Article 8, paragraph 3, and by virtue of Article 92, paragraph
3, of this Convention, the French Republic declares that, in accordance with Article
689-11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the French courts may prosecute any person
habitually residing in its territory who is guilty of the offences referred to in
Article 5 of this Convention. These offences may only be prosecuted at the request
of the Public Prosecutor. Habitual residence on the French territory is defined in
article 689-11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as "a sufficient connection with
France. This connection is assessed in particular with regard to the actual or foreseeable
duration of the presence of the person concerned on the French territory, the conditions
and reasons for this presence, the will shown by the person concerned to settle there
or to remain there or his family, social, material or professional connections. This
reservation is made for a renewable period of three years. Declarations: Insofar as
the crimes provided for in Article 5 of this Convention are defined identically in
the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the French Republic refers mutatis
mutandis to the declarations it made when ratifying the Rome Statute, as regards the
interpretation of the material scope of application of this Convention. The French
Republic declares that it shall ratify this Convention provided that the three language
versions referred to in Article 92, paragraph 2, of this Convention are concordant,
if necessary after application by the depositary of the procedure provided for in
Article 79, paragraphs 2 and 3, of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of
23 May 1969.
Germany modified
- Reservations / Declarations: Yes
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added reservation
Date unknown
Declaration: The Federal Republic of Germany declares that it shall also apply the
Convention to the crimes listed in Annexes A, B, E, F, G and H in relation to any
other State Party that has notified the Depositary that it shall apply the Convention
to the same crime as listed in the relevant annex, which shall constitute an integral
part of the Convention. Reservation: The Federal Republic of Germany reserves its
right as set down in Article 90, paragraph 5, sentence 2 not to apply the Convention
to requests relating to acts or omissions that occurred before the date of the entry
into force of the Convention or the relevant annex for the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Federal Republic of Germany shall limit the establishment of jurisdiction pursuant
to Article 8, paragraph 3 insofar as the crime of aggression mentioned in Annex H
of the Convention is concerned, to which the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply
the Convention with a separate notification in accordance with Article 2, paragraph
2.
Netherlands, the Kingdom of the modified
- Reservations / Declarations: Yes
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added reservation
Date unknown
Declaration: The Kingdom of the Netherlands declares in accordance with Article 91,
paragraph 1, of the Ljubljana — The Hague Convention on international cooperation
in the investigation and prosecution of the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity,
war crimes and other international crimes, concluded at Ljubljana on 26 May 2023,
that the Kingdom of the Netherlands, for the European part of the Netherlands, will
provisionally apply Part III (Mutual Legal Assistance) of the Convention, pending
its entry into force, from 15 February 2024.
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