Law-Making Activities of International Organizations: Theory and Modern Trends (Igor Barkovsky)

Раздел "Международное право", рубрика "Международные организации"The article is devoted to the topical issue of international organizations participation in law-making activities. It also deals with theory and modern trends of law-making activities of these organizations. The author gives his analysis of the following important theoretical and practical issues: international legal personality of international organizations, the mechanism of participation of international organizations in national law-making and their activities in this field. The author reveals some modern trends of law-making activities of international organizations. Special attention is paid to the trends of the current law-making in the Commonwealth of Independent States with the focus on the draft of the CIS Regulations on a Single Register of Legal Documents. The register is intended to be the system of account, registration and formal publication of the CIS legal instruments. It will be based on modern computer information technologies for systematization, maintenance and providing for informational needs of users. The author notes the necessity of improvement of the mechanism of agenda formation of the CIS Council of the Heads of States and Prime Ministers summits. In the author's opinion it is expedient to develop a normative act regulating the procedure of forming appropriate agenda for the sessions of the CIS Council of the Heads of States and the CIS Council of Prime Ministers taking into consideration the experience of other international organizations. Separate items of the agenda draft for the CIS Council of the Heads of State could contain documents for discussion to be signed, documents to be signed and documents to be delegated to other CIS bodies