CYIL Vol. 7, 2016

ČESTMÍR ČEPELKA CYIL 7 ȍ2016Ȏ PROBLEMS WITH THE INCLUSION OF AGGRESSION INTO THE ROME STATUTE OF THE ICC

Čestmír Čepelka

Abstract: The focus of this contribution is to deal with possible incompatibility of Amendments on the crime of aggression to the Rome Statute of the ICC (Kampala 2010) with the UN Charter in the sense of its Article 103. By the activation after 1 January 2017 of jurisdiction with respect to crimes of aggression there will be in fact this particular new problem: The Security Council prefers domestic courts for trying these crimes so that it respects the principle of international law to rely first on the domestic national court capability of a country before turning to international tribunals. The International Criminal Court is only complementary to the national criminal jurisdictions. Resumé: Smyslem tohoto příspěvku je pojednat o případné neslučitelnosti Dodat- ku o zločinu agrese (Amendments, Kampala 2010) s Chartou Spojených národů, jejím článkem 103. Tzv. aktivizací jurisdikce MTS ve věci zločinu agrese po 1. led- nu 2017 vznikne totiž tento nový problém. Rada bezpečnosti upřednostňuje fungu- jící vnitrostátní soudnictví určité země před soudem mezinárodním, čímž též plně respektuje požadavky mezinárodního práva. Mezinárodní trestní soud (MTS) je jen komplementárním k řečené vnitrostátní jurisdikci. Key words: International Criminal Court (ICC) ; Amendments on the crime of aggression to the Rome Statute of the ICC; UN Charter, its Article 103 of the prevalence; domestic national court capability of a country. On the Author: Prof. JUDr. Čestmír Čepelka, DrSc. , born in 1927. He is a retired professor of international law. Till 1993 he was a member of the Department of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Since then he has been cooperating externally with this Department. In his research he mainly focuses on general international law and its codification. 1. Introduction In hopes of copying the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials (crimes against peace) the first Review Conference on the ICC (Kampala, 31 May – 11 June 2010) decided to exercise the jurisdiction of the Court with respect to the crime of aggression. Article 5 (1) (d) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) determines that the ICC will have jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. However, the second paragraph of Article 5 sets out that this jurisdiction shall only be exercised once a provision is adopted defining the crime and setting out the

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