¹ At least, there is a tendency to interpret these provisions as a legal basis for protective criminal guidelines of the European Community connected to the focus of the legal instrument. See: Art. 23 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty (OJEC L 1 of 4.1.2003, p. 1); Art. 19 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 907/2000 of 2 May 2000 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 as regards aid for private storage in the beef and veal sector (OJEC L 105 of 3 May 2000, p. 6).Google Scholar

² COM (2001) 715 final, 11 December 2001.Google Scholar

³ Conventions and agreements of the Council of Europe opened for signature between 1949 and 2003 were published in the European Treaty Series (ETS 001 to 193). From 2004, this Series is continued by the Council of Europe Treaty Series (CETS 194). All instruments of the Council of Europe are available at http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/cadreprincipal.htm Google Scholar

⁴ The German International Criminal Law Statute (Völkerstrafgesetzbuch) of 2002 (BGBl. I 2254) is reprinted in the 1 Annual of German & European Law 667 (Miller, Russell/Zumbansen, Peer eds. 2004); see the commentary by Safferling, Christoph, id., at 365; see, for its perhaps biggest application yet, in the Abu-Ghraib case, the essay by Fischer-Lescano, Andreas, in 6 German Law Journal 689 (2005).Google Scholar

⁵ See: www.icj-cij.org. The cases concern the State's obligation to inform detainees of their consular rights under Article 36 § 1 (b) of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 24 April 1963.Google Scholar

⁶ The Committee convenes three times a year for sessions of three weeks’ duration, normally in March at United Nations headquarters in New York and in July and November at the United Nations Office in Geneva.Google Scholar