The issue of the legal effect of objections to such reservations could be approached by looking at article 21 of the Vienna Convention, which concerned the legal effect of reservations and objections to reservations formulated in accordance with article 19.

Another equally important aspect concerned the legal consequences of the invalidity of reservations.

19. Brazil subscribed fully, and without reservations, to the main international legal instruments concerning refugees.

Reservations of that kind should not influence the legal effect of adherence to the treaty.

The view was also expressed that the question of the validity of reservations should be considered together with the question of the legal consequences of invalid reservations.

Objections to reservations incompatible with the object and purpose of a treaty did not have the same legal effects as objections to reservations which had successfully passed the compatibility test.

He looked forward to the Commission s further considerations on the legal effect of impermissible reservations and objections to them.

Prohibiting all reservations Prohibiting reservations to specified provisions Prohibiting certain categories of reservations.

6. Mr. Fozein (Cameroon) said that the Commission s report showed that the topic of reservations to normative treaties, including reservations to human rights treaties, still aroused considerable controversy on both legal and political grounds.

Reservations to treaties were a manifestation of the will of sovereign States and offered negotiating flexibility to States which sought to reconcile international legal thinking with their national legal systems.

The concepts of the validity and invalidity of reservations should preferably be used only when the legal consequences of reservations were being evaluated by the subjects entitled to do so, in particular a State or a court.

Reservations

Reservations

Reservations

Reservations

Reservations were voiced to making reference to reciprocity in the draft uniform rules, given the varying meaning of reciprocity in different legal systems.

1.4 Reservations

3.3 Reservations

1.5 Reservations

G. Reservations

L. Reservations

Impermissible reservations

Removing reservations

Removing reservations

The Vienna system had been strongly criticized since it left it to individual States to determine the legal consequences of non compliance with reservations.

Any reservations to the Convention are also addressed in this section,b as well as other legal impediments to the implementation of the Convention.

Any reservations to the Convention are also addressed in this section,2 as well as other legal impediments to the implementation of the Convention

The preparation and consideration of two reports remained pending for 1998 one on the definition, formulation, withdrawal and acceptance of reservations and objections to reservations and the other on the effects of reservations, the acceptance of reservations and objections to reservations.

76. With respect to the problem of appreciation of the admissibility of reservations, the Commission could establish general norms which would facilitate the settlement of legal disputes and provide guidance to States in complex legal situations.

Article 46 Reservations

Reservations and declarations

Article 22 Reservations

Reservations to treaties.

1 4 Reservations

Expressed specific reservations

Reservations to treaties

Article 20 Reservations

Reservations are recommended.

Article 9 Reservations

Statement on reservations

Impact of reservations

Ah, reservations, please.

Turning to the question of reservations to treaties, particularly draft guidelines 2.6.1 and 2.6.2, he said that a reservation, as such, had no proper legal effects.

158. Notwithstanding ratification of the Convention without reservations, the Committee is concerned that the Convention is not being implemented within an adequate legal and constitutional framework.

The considerable State by State variation in the Convention's scope of application, allowed by the system of declarations and reservations could undermine legal certainty for electronic contracts.