Abstract
“Reservation” means a unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State or an international organization when signing, ratifying, formally confirming, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty or by a State when making a notification of succession to a treaty, whereby the State or organization purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State or to that international organization.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
For the history of the Guide to Practice → Art 19 MN 38–40.
- 2.
Report of the ILC on the Work of its Sixty-second Session, UN Doc A/65/10, 36–73 (text only) and 73–271 (text and commentary) (2010). The work on the guidelines on the procedure for interpretative declarations (sub 2.4) is still in progress, the guidelines 2.4.1 - 2.4.8 were taken from the draft guideline, as finalized by the ILC Working Group on reservations to Treaties in May 2011 (UN Doc A/CN.4/L.779).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Dörr, O., Schmalenbach, K. (2012). Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties. In: Dörr, O., Schmalenbach, K. (eds) Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19291-3_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19291-3_26
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-19290-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-19291-3
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and LawLaw and Criminology (R0)