Agreement Revising the Bangui Agreement on the creation of an African Intellectual Property Organization
Type of Document: Treaties
International Organization: African Intellectual Property Organization
Year: 1999
Country: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo
The Agreement revised Bangui Agreement of March 2, 1977, Relating to the Creation of an African Intellectual Property Organization.
Article 39 defines the legal status, privileges and immunities of the organization and its agents.
The Organization shall have legal personality. In each of the member States, it shall enjoy the broadest legal capacity accorded to legal entities by national legislation.
The immunities and privileges generally accorded to international organizations shall be accorded to the Organization on the territories of the member States in order to facilitate the conduct of its action.
In particular, its officials, wherever they may be, shall enjoy immunity from prosecution except in so far as the Organization expressly waives it, either in a specific procedure or by contract. Officials of the Organization means the staff permanently working for it, experts for the duration of their assignments and the representatives of member States and their substitutes for the duration of the sessions of the Administrative Council.