The Arms Trade Treaty, Article 18, Secretariat

C. Da Silva & B. Wood, eds., Weapons and International Law: The Arms Trade Treaty (Larcier, 2015)

9 Pages Posted: 25 Jan 2016

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William Thomas Worster

The Hague University of Applied Sciences - International Law; University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Amsterdam Center for International Law; University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law

Date Written: January 25, 2016

Abstract

This chapter examines the Secretariat created by the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). A secretariat is the principle administrative organ of an international organization or treaty regime. As such, it combines aspects of a bureaucracy and an executive agency, but its essential role is to support the States Parties in coordinating the management of the Treaty in a continuous and stable fashion. Importantly, secretariats are staffed by international civil servants, are not under the authority of any State government, and are meant to discharge limited and predefined tasks impartially without the intervention of politics.

Keywords: arms, trade, secretariat, institutional law, organization

JEL Classification: K00, K10, K19, K30, K33, K39

Suggested Citation

Worster, William Thomas, The Arms Trade Treaty, Article 18, Secretariat (January 25, 2016). C. Da Silva & B. Wood, eds., Weapons and International Law: The Arms Trade Treaty (Larcier, 2015), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2721791

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