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The Department of Legal Cooperation (Technical
Secretariat for Legal Cooperation Mechanisms)
A. Structure
1. The Department of Legal Cooperation and its staff are
under the overall direction, supervision, and control of the
director of the Department, who reports to the secretary for
legal affairs, in accordance with the legal system of the
Organization and with the provisions of this Executive
Order.
B. Functions
1. Provides advisory and technical secretariat services to
the Meetings of Ministers of Justice or of Ministers or
Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJAs) and to the
groups, committees, meetings, and other mechanisms
established by them, or connected with them, for
coordination or for political and technical dialogue; takes
the necessary action to implement and fulfill their
recommendations and decisions.
2. Provides advisory and technical secretariat services to
the Conference of State Parties and to the Committee of
Experts of the Follow-up Mechanism for Implementation of the
Inter-American Convention against Corruption, in accordance
with the Report of Buenos Aires, the Rules of Procedure of
the Committee, and the other rules adopted for this
Mechanism.
3. Advises the Consultative Committee of the Inter-American
Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and
Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other
Related Materials (CIFTA) and its Secretariat pro tempore on
matters related to mutual legal assistance that are
addressed by the CIFTA.
4. Prepares draft strategies, plans of action, or technical
cooperation programs to strengthen mutual juridical and
judicial assistance among member states, in the context of
inter-American treaties and legal instruments in this area,
to fight forms of transnational organized crime; presents
them, for consideration, to REMJA or to the appropriate
juridical cooperation mechanism; executes, or coordinates
with other General Secretariat dependencies the execution
of, measures for their implementation that correspond to the
General Secretariat; follows up on their implementation and
reports thereon to REMJA or to the appropriate juridical
cooperation mechanism.
5. Provides advisory and technical secretariat services, in
the juridical and judicial cooperation areas for which it is
responsible, to the organs, agencies, and entities of the
OAS, their committees, and their working groups.
6. Carries out technical cooperation projects to promote the
ratification, legislative implementation, and application of
inter-American juridical and judicial cooperation treaties,
in fulfillment of the resolutions of the General Assembly or
of the appropriate juridical cooperation mechanisms.
7. Issues public information on the juridical cooperation
mechanisms for which it serves as technical secretariat and
on its own areas of endeavor; provides technical secretariat
services as required for the proper functioning of the
Inter-American Network for Cooperation against Corruption,
the Network for Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters,
and all other networks formed for information-sharing in the
Hemisphere, in areas related to juridical and judicial
cooperation.
8. Coordinates the General Secretariat’s cooperative
relations with the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA)
and with other international organizations and other
institutions in its area of competence.
9. Provides advisory and technical secretariat services to
other juridical cooperation bodies or mechanisms in relation
to other treaties or agreements when such services are
required; conducts other technical cooperation programs, in
its area of competence, in keeping with the decisions taken
by the Heads of State and Government at Summits of the
Americas or at OAS General Assembly sessions.
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