Aprova, para ratificação, o Acordo sobre Privilégios e Imunidades da Agência Internacional da Energia Atómica, adoptado pelo Conselho de Governadores em 1 de Julho de 1959
É aprovado, para ratificação, o Acordo sobre Privilégios e Imunidades da Agência Internacional da Energia Atómica, adoptado pelo Conselho de Governadores em 1 de Julho de 1959, cujo texto original em inglês e respectiva tradução em português seguem em anexo ao presente diploma.
São formuladas as seguintes reservas e declarações quanto ao texto do referido Acordo:
Aprovada em 26 de Março de 1999.
O Presidente da Assembleia da República, António de Almeida Santos.
AGREEMENT ON THE PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
Whereas article XV, C, of the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency provides that the legal capacity, privileges and immunities referred to in that article shall be defined in a separate agreement or agreements between the Agency, represented for this purpose by the Director General acting under the instructions of the Board of Governors, and the Members;
Whereas an Agreement Governing the Relationship between the Agency and the United Nations has been adopted in accordance with article XVI of the Statute; and
Whereas the General Assembly of the United Nations, contemplating the unification as far as possible of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by the United Nations and by the various agencies brought into relationship with the United Nations, has adopted the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies, and a number of Members of the United Nations have acceded thereto:
The Board of Governors:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1
In this Agreement:
1) Of its General Conference and of its Board of Governors;
2) Of any international conference, symposium, seminar or panel convened by it; and
3) Of any committee of any of these bodies;
ARTICLE II
Juridical personality
Section 2
The Agency shall possess juridical personality. It shall have the capacity a) to contract, b) to acquire and dispose of immovable and movable property and c) to institute legal proceedings.
ARTICLE III
Property, funds and assets
Section 3
The Agency, its property and assets, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy immunity from every form of legal process except in so far as in any particular case it has expressly waived its immunity. It is, however, understood that no waiver of immunity shall extend to any measure of execution.
Section 4
The premises of the Agency shall be inviolable. The property and assets of the Agency, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, requisition, confiscation, expropriation and any other form of interference, whether by executive, administrative, judicial or legislative action.
Section 5
The archives of the Agency, and in general all documents belonging to it or held by it, shall be inviolable, wherever located.
Section 6
Without being restricted by financial controls, regulations or moratoria of any kind:
Section 7
The Agency shall, in exercising its rights under section 6, pay due regard to any representations made by the Government of any State party to this Agreement in so far as it is considered that effect can be given to such representations without detriment to the interests of the Agency.
Section 8
The Agency, its assets, income and other property shall be:
Section 9
While the Agency will not, as a general rule, claim exemption from excise duties and from taxes on the sale of movable and immovable property which form part of the price to be paid, nevertheless when the Agency is making important purchases for official use of property on which such duties and taxes have been charged or are chargeable, States parties to this Agreement will, whenever possible, make appropriate administrative arrangements for the remission or return of the amount of duty or tax.
ARTICLE IV
Facilities in respect of communications
Section 10
The Agency shall enjoy, in the territory of each State party to this Agreement and as far as may be compatible with any international conventions, regulations and arrangements to which that State is a party, for its official communications, treatment not less favourable than that accorded by the Government of such a State to any other Government, including the latter's diplomatic mission, in the matter of priorities, rates and taxes for posts and telecommunications, and press rates for information to the press and radio.
Section 11
No censorship shall be applied to the official correspondence and other official communications of the Agency.
The Agency shall have the right to use codes and to dispatch and receive correspondence and other official communications by courier or in sealed bags, which shall have the same immunities and privileges as diplomatic couriers and bags.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude the adoption of appropriate security precautions to be determined by agreement between a State party to this Agreement and the Agency.
ARTICLE V
Representatives of Members
Section 12
Representatives of Members at meetings convened by the Agency shall, while exercising their functions and during their journeys to and from the place of meeting, enjoy the following privileges and immunities:
Section 13
In order to secure for the representatives of Members of the Agency at meetings convened by the Agency complete freedom of speech and complete independence in the discharge of their duties, the immunity from legal process in respect of words spoken or written and all acts done by them in discharging their duties shall continue to be accorded, notwithstanding that the persons concerned are no longer engaged in the discharge of such duties.
Section 14
Where the incidence of any form of taxation depends upon residence, periods during which the representatives of Members of the Agency at meetings convened by the Agency are present in a Member State for the discharge of their duties shall not be considered as periods of residence.
Section 15
Privileges and immunities are accorded to the representatives of Members, not for the personal benefit of the individuals themselves, but in order to safeguard the independent exercise of their functions in connexion with the Agency. Consequently, a Member not only has the right but is under a duty to waive the immunity of its representatives in any case where, in the opinion of the Member, the immunity would impede the course of justice, and where it can be waived without prejudice to the purpose for which the immunity is accorded.
Section 16
The provisions of sections 12, 13 and 14 are not applicable in relation to the authorities of a State of which the person is a national or of which he is or has been a representative.
ARTICLE VI
Officials
Section 17
The Agency shall from time to time make known to the Governments of all States parties to this Agreement the names of the officials to whom the provisions of this article and of article IX apply.
Section 18
Section 19
The officials of the Agency shall be exempt from national service obligations, provided that, in relation to the States of which they are nationals, such exemption shall be confined to officials of the Agency whose names have, by reason of their duties, been placed upon a list compiled by the Director General of the Agency and approved by the State concerned.
Should other officials of the Agency be called up for national service, the State concerned shall, at the request of the Agency, grant such temporary deferments in the call-up of such officials as may be necessary to avoid interruption in the continuation of essential work.
Section 20
In addition to the privileges and immunities specified in sections 18 and 19 above, the Director General of the Agency, including any official acting on his behalf during his absence from duty, shall be accorded on behalf of himself, his spouse and minor children, the privileges and immunities, exemptions and facilities accorded to diplomatic envoys on behalf of themselves, their spouses and minor children, in accordance with international law. The same privileges and immunities, exemptions and facilities shall also be accorded to a Deputy Director General or official of equivalent rank of the Agency.
Section 21
Privileges and immunities are granted to officials in the interest of the Agency only and not for the personal benefit of the individuals themselves. The Agency shall have the right and the duty to waive the immunity of any official in any case where, in its opinion, the immunity would impede the course of justice and can be waived without prejudice to the interests of the Agency.
Section 22
The Agency shall co-operate at all times with the appropriate authorities of Member States to facilitate the proper administration of justice, secure the observance of police regulations and prevent the occurrence of any abuses in connexion with the privileges, immunities and facilities mentioned in this article.
ARTICLE VII
Experts on missions for the Agency
Section 23
Experts (other than officials coming within the scope of article VI) serving on committees of the Agency or performing missions for the Agency, including missions as inspectors under article XII of the Statute of the Agency and as project examiners under article XI thereof, shall be accorded the following privileges and immunities so far as is necessary for the effective exercise of their functions, including the time spent on journeys in connexion with service on such committees or missions:
Section 24
Nothing in subparagraphs c) and d) of section 23 shall be construed to preclude the adoption of appropriate security precautions to be determined by agreement between a State party to this Agreement and the Agency.
Section 25
Privileges and immunities are granted to the experts of the Agency in the interests of the Agency and not for the personal benefit of the individuals themselves. The Agency shall have the right and the duty to waive the immunity of any expert in any case where, in its opinion, the immunity would impede the course of justice and can be waived without prejudice to the interests of the Agency.
ARTICLE VIII
Abuses of privilege
Section 26
If any State party to this Agreement considers that there has been an abuse of a privilege or immunity conferred by this Agreement, consultations shall be held between that State and the Agency to determine whether any such abuse has occurred and, if so, to attempt to ensure that no repetition occurs. If such consultations fail to achieve a result satisfactory to the State and the Agency, the question whether an abuse of a privilege or immunity has occurred shall be settled by a procedure in accordance with section 34. If it is found that such an abuse has occurred, the State party to this Agreement affected by such abuse has the right, after notification to the Agency, to withhold from the Agency the benefits of the privilege or immunity so abused. However, the withholding of privileges or immunities must not interfere with the Agency's principal activities or prevent the Agency from performing its principal functions.
Section 27
Representatives of Members at meetings convened by the Agency, while exercising their functions and during their journeys to and from the place of meeting and officials within the meaning of section 1, v), shall not be required by the territorial authorities to leave the country in which they are performing their functions on account of any activities by them in their official capacity. In the case, however, of abuse of privileges of residence committed by any such person in activities in that country outside his official functions, he may be required to leave by the Government of that country, provided that:
ARTICLE IX
Laissez-passer
Section 28
Officials of the Agency shall be entitled to use the United Nations laissez-passer in conformity with administrative arrangements concluded between the Director General of the Agency and the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Director General of the Agency shall notify each State party to this Agreement of the administrative arrangements so concluded.
Section 29
States parties to this Agreement shall recognize and accept the United Nations laissez-passer issued to officials of the Agency as valid travel documents.
Section 30
Applications for visas, where required, from officials of the Agency holding United Nations laissez-passer, when accompanied by a certificate that they are travelling on the business of the Agency, shall be dealt with as speedily as possible. In addition, such persons shall be granted facilities for speedy travel.
Section 31
Similar facilities to those specified in section 30 shall be accorded to experts and other persons who, though not holders of United Nations laissez-passer, have a certificate that they are travelling on the business of the Agency.
Section 32
The Director General, the Deputy Directors General and other officials of a rank not lower than head of division of the Agency, travelling on United Nations laissez-passer on the business of the Agency, shall be granted the same facilities for travel as are accorded to officials of comparable rank in diplomatic missions.
ARTICLE X
Settlement of disputes
Section 33
The Agency shall make provision for appropriate modes of settlement of:
Section 34
Unless in any case it is agreed by the parties to have recourse to another mode of settlement, all differences arising out of the interpretation or application of the present Agreement shall be referred to the International Court of Justice, in accordance with the Statute of the Court. If a difference arises between the Agency and a Member and they do not agree on any other mode of settlement, a request shall be made for an advisory opinion on any legal question involved, in accordance with article 96 of the Charter of the United Nations and article 65 of the Statute of the Court and the relevant provisions of the agreement concluded between the United Nations and the Agency. The opinion given by the Court shall be accepted as decisive by the parties.
ARTICLE XI
Interpretation
Section 35
The provisions of this Agreement shall be interpreted in the light of the functions with which the Agency is entrusted by its Statute.
Section 36
The provisions of this Agreement shall in no way limit or prejudice the privileges and immunities which have been, or may hereafter be, accorded to the Agency by any State by reason of the location in the territory of that State of the Agency's Headquarters or regional offices, or of officials, experts, materials, equipment or facilities in connexion with Agency projects or activities, including the application of safeguards to an Agency project or other arrangement. This Agreement shall not be deemed to prevent the conclusion between the Agency and any State party thereto of supplemental agreements adjusting the provisions of this Agreement or extending or curtailing the privileges and immunities thereby granted.
Section 37
This Agreement shall not itself operate so as to abrogate, or derogate from, any provisions of the Statute of the Agency or any rights or obligations which the Agency may otherwise have, acquire or assume.
ARTICLE XII
Final provisions
Section 38
This Agreement shall be communicated to every Member of the Agency for acceptance. Acceptance shall be effected by the deposit with the Director General of an instrument of acceptance, and the Agreement shall come into force as regards each Member on the date of deposit of that Member's instrument of acceptance. It is understood that, when an instrument of acceptance is deposited on behalf of any State, that State will be in a position under its own law to give effect to the terms of this Agreement. The Director General shall transmit a certified copy of this Agreement to the Government of every State now or hereafter becoming a Member of the Agency, and shall inform all Members of the deposit of each instrument of acceptance and of the filing of any notification of denunciation provided for in section 39.
It shall be permissible for a Member to make reservations to this Agreement. Reservations may be made only at the time of the deposit of the Member's instrument of acceptance, and shall immediately be communicated by the Director General to all Members of the Agency.
Section 39
This Agreement shall continue in force as between the Agency and every Member which has deposited an instrument of acceptance for so long as that Member remains a Member of the Agency, or until a revised agreement has been approved by the Board of Governors and that Member has become a party to this revised agreement, provided that if a Member files a notification of denunciation with the Director General this Agreement shall cease to be in force with respect to such Member one year after the receipt of such notification by the Director General.
Section 40
At the request of one-third of the States parties to this Agreement, the Board of Governors of the Agency shall consider whether to approve amendments thereto. Amendments approved by the Board shall enter into force upon their acceptance in accordance with the procedure provided in section 38.
Pursuant to the directions of the Director General, I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, as approved by the Board of Governors of the Agency on 1 July 1959, in the English, French, Russian and Spanish languages.
In testimony whereof, I, Gurdon W. Wattles, Acting Director of the Legal Division of the International Atomic Energy Agency, have caused the seal of the Agency to be fixed hereto and have subscribed my name, at the city of Vienna, on the 3rd day of February 1960.
Gurdon W. Wattles.
ACORDO SOBRE OS PRIVILÉGIOS E IMUNIDADES DA AGÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL DA ENERGIA ATÓMICA
Considerando que o parágrafo C do artigo XV do Estatuto da Agência Internacional da Energia Atómica dispõe que a capacidade jurídica e os privilégios e imunidades mencionados no dito artigo devem ser definidos num acordo ou acordos distintos que serão concluídos entre a Agência, representada para esse fim pelo director-geral agindo em conformidade com as instruções do Conselho dos Governadores, e os seus Membros;
Considerando que um acordo regulando as relações entre a Agência e a Organização das Nações Unidas foi adoptado conforme o artigo XVI do Estatuto;
Considerando que a Assembleia Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas, desejando a unificação, na medida do possível, dos privilégios e imunidades de que gozam a Organização das Nações Unidas e as diversas instituições que tenham concluído um acordo com a dita Organização, adoptou a Convenção sobre os Privilégios e Imunidades das Instituições Especializadas e que vários Estados membros da Organização das Nações Unidas aderiram à dita Convenção:
O Conselho dos Governadores:
ARTIGO I
Definições
No presente Acordo:
1) Da sua conferência geral e do seu Conselho dos Governadores;
2) Das conferências internacionais, colóquios convocados ou grupos de estudos convocados por ela;
3) Das comissões de um qualquer dos órgãos precedentes;
ARTIGO II
Personalidade jurídica
A Agência possui personalidade jurídica. Tem capacidade:
ARTIGO III
Bens, fundos e haveres
Sem estar sujeita a qualquer controlo, regulamentação ou moratória financeiros:
A Agência, os seus haveres, rendimentos e outros bens são:
Ainda que a Agência não reivindique, em regra geral, a isenção dos direitos e das taxas de venda integrados no preço dos bens mobiliários ou imobiliários quando efectua para seu uso oficial compras importantes cujo preço compreende direitos e taxas desta natureza, os Estados partes no presente Acordo tomarão, cada vez que tal lhes seja possível, as medidas administrativas apropriadas com vista à reposição ou reembolso do montante destes direitos e taxas.
ARTIGO IV
Facilidades de comunicações
A correspondência oficial e as outras comunicações oficiais da Agência não podem ser censuradas.
A Agência tem o direito de empregar códigos, bem como de expedir e receber a sua correspondência e as suas outras comunicações oficiais por correios ou malas seladas, que gozarão dos mesmos privilégios e imunidades que os correios e malas diplomáticas.
A presente secção não poderá em nenhum caso ser interpretada como proibindo a adopção de medidas de segurança apropriadas, a determinar por via de acordo entre o Estado parte no presente Acordo e a Agência.
ARTIGO V
Representantes dos Membros
Os representantes dos Membros às reuniões convocadas pela Agência gozam, no exercício das suas funções e durante as suas viagens com destino ou origem no local da reunião, dos privilégios e imunidades seguintes:
As disposições das secções 12, 13 e 14 não são invocáveis perante as autoridades do Estado do qual a pessoa é originária ou do qual ela é ou foi representante.
ARTIGO VI
Funcionários
Os funcionários da Agência estão isentos de qualquer obrigação relativa ao serviço nacional. Todavia, esta isenção será, em relação aos Estados de que são originários, limitada àqueles funcionários da Agência que, por razões das suas funções, tiverem sido nomeados numa lista estabelecida pelo director-geral da Agência e aprovada pelo Estado do qual sejam originários.
Em caso de chamamento ao serviço nacional de outros funcionários da Agência, o Estado interessado concederá, a pedido da Agência, os adiamentos de prazo que forem necessários com vista a evitar a interrupção de um serviço essencial.
A Agência colaborará em todas as ocasiões com as autoridades competentes dos Estados com vista a facilitar a boa administração da justiça, a assegurar a observação dos regulamentos de polícia e a evitar qualquer abuso ao qual os privilégios, imunidades e facilidades enunciadas no presente artigo possam dar lugar.
ARTIGO VII
Técnicos em missão para a Agência
Os peritos (que não sejam os funcionários visados no artigo VI) que exercem funções junto das comissões da Agência ou cumprem missões para esta última, compreendendo missões na qualidade de inspectores em conformidade com o artigo XII do Estatuto da Agência ou na qualidade de encarregados de estudo em conformidade com o artigo XI do dito Estatuto, gozam dos privilégios e imunidades a seguir indicados, na medida em que sejam necessários para o exercício efectivo das suas funções, durante as viagens efectuadas por ocasião do exercício das suas funções junto destas comissões ou no decurso destas missões:
Os privilégios e imunidades são concedidos aos peritos no interesse da Agência e não para seu benefício pessoal. A Agência poderá e deverá fazer cessar a imunidade concedida a um técnico em todos os casos em que, em seu entender, esta imunidade impeça que a justiça seja feita e em que a imunidade possa cessar sem trazer prejuízo aos interesses da Agência.
ARTIGO VIII
Abuso de privilégios
Os representantes dos Membros nas reuniões convocadas pela Agência, durante o exercício das suas funções e no decurso das suas viagens com destino ou origem no local da reunião, assim como os funcionários visados na secção 1, alínea v), não poderão ser obrigados pelas autoridades territoriais a deixar o país no qual exercem as suas funções, por causa das actividades por eles exercidas na sua qualidade oficial. Todavia, no caso de tal pessoa abusar do privilégio de residência exercendo nesse país actividades sem relação com as suas funções oficiais, poderá ser obrigado a deixar o país pelo governo deste, sob reserva das disposições seguintes:
ARTIGO IX
Livre-trânsito
O director-geral, os directores-gerais-adjuntos e outros funcionários de uma categoria pelo menos igual à de chefe de divisão da Agência, viajando por conta da Agência e munidos de um livre-trânsito das Nações Unidas, gozam das mesmas facilidades de viagem que os membros das missões diplomáticas de uma categoria comparável.
ARTIGO X
Regulamentação dos diferendos
A Agência deverá prever formas de regulamentação para:
A menos que, num dado caso, as partes não tenham acordado recorrer a outro modo de regulamentação, qualquer contestação referente à interpretação ou aplicação do presente Acordo será levada à apreciação do Tribunal Internacional de Justiça, em conformidade com o Estatuto do Tribunal. Se surgir um diferendo entre a Agência e um Estado membro, e se as partes não chegarem a acordo sobre a forma de regulamentação, será pedido, em conformidade com o artigo 96.º da Carta das Nações Unidas e do artigo 65.º do Estatuto do Tribunal, assim como com as disposições relevantes do Acordo concluído entre a Organização das Nações Unidas e a Agência, um parecer consultivo sobre qualquer questão jurídica levantada. O parecer do Tribunal será aceite pelas partes como decisivo.
ARTIGO XI
Interpretação
Nenhuma disposição do Estatuto da Agência nem nenhum direito ou obrigação que a Agência por outro modo possuir, adquirir ou assumir será revogado por simples efeito do presente Acordo.
ARTIGO XII
Cláusulas finais
O presente Acordo será comunicado a todos os Membros da Agência para aceitação. Esta efectua-se pelo depósito junto do director-geral de um instrumento de aceitação; o Acordo entra em vigor, em relação a cada Membro, na data do depósito do seu instrumento de aceitação.
Entende-se que quando um instrumento de aceitação é depositado em nome de um Estado, este deve encontrar-se em situação de aplicar, por virtude da sua legislação, as disposições do presente Acordo. O director-geral dirigirá uma cópia certificada conforme do presente Acordo ao governo de todo o Estado que seja ou se torne Membro da Agência e informará todos os Membros do depósito de cada instrumento de aceitação e da entrega de qualquer aviso de denúncia previsto na secção 39.
Qualquer Membro da Agência poderá formular reservas ao presente Acordo. As reservas só poderão ser formuladas no momento do depósito do instrumento de aceitação; o director-geral comunicará imediatamente o texto das reservas a todos os Membros da Agência.
A pedido de um terço dos Estados partes no presente Acordo, o Conselho dos Governadores da Agência considerará se há lugar a aprovação de emendas ao Acordo. As emendas aprovadas pelo Conselho entram em vigor após a sua aceitação, em conformidade com o processo previsto na secção 38.