» Statute of the Inter-American Juridical Committee

CHAPTER IV

Functions and Powers

Article 12: The Inter-American Juridical Committee has the following principal functions and powers:

a) To provide advice on juridical matters requested of it by other organs of the Organization;

b) To undertake the studies and preparatory work assigned to it by the General Assembly, the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, or the Councils of the Organization;

c) To undertake, on its own initiative, such studies and preparatory work as it considers advisable;

d) To suggest to the General Assembly and to the Councils the holding of specialized conferences on juridical matters; and

e) To establish cooperative relations with universities, institutes, and other teaching centers, with bar associations and other associations of lawyers and with national and international committees, organizations, and entities devoted to the development or codification of international law or to the study, research, teaching, or dissemination of information on juridical matters of international interest.

Article 13: The Committee shall present to the General Assembly an annual report and such special reports on its activities as it may consider necessary.

The Committee shall send these reports to the General Secretariat, as far in advance as called for by regulations, so that it may transmit them to the governments of the Member States and to the Permanent Council, for the purposes called for in article 91 f) of the Charter.

Each year the Committee may designate one of its members for the purpose of reporting on the work of the Committee to the General Assembly.

The Committee may also designate one of its members as an observer at meetings of other organs of the Organization when the agendas of such meetings include juridical topics of interest to the Committee, in accordance with the pertinent rules of procedure.