Subcommittee on Improper Use of Treaties

• Status: Dissolved
• Coordinator: Mr. Kyung Geun Lee (Rep. of Korea)
• Members
  • Mr. Erwin Silitonga (Indonesia)
  • Mr. Lara Yaffar (Mexico)
  • Mr. Le-Yin Zhang (China)
  • Mr. Liao (since 2006, replacing Mr.Zhang)
  • Mr. Francisco Alfredo Garcia Prats (Universitat de Valencia, Spain)
  • Mr. Jacques Sasseville (at the time Representative of France, now OECD)
• Mandate
  
  

  To study the issue of improper use of treaties and propose suitable methods to combat treaty abuses. Based on the report of the subcommittee, the Committee of Experts would address the issue in the Article 1 of the UN Model Convention and particularly in its Commentary.

• Creation: First session of the Committee (October 2005)
• Dissolution: Fourth session of the Committee (October 2008)
• Activities:
  • Meeting
    • Meeting in Beijing from 5 to 7 April 2007
  • Other Reports
    • Subcommittee’s report to the second session of the Committee, 2006
    • Supplementary Note to Treaty Abuse and Treaty Shopping E/C/18/2006/2-Add.1
    • Note by the coordinator of the subcommittee on improper use of treaties: Proposed amendments, 2008
    • Progress report by the coordinator of the subcommittee on improper use of treaties: Beneficial ownership, 2008
• Output:
  • Following the October 2008 session, a new text for Article 1 and its Commentary was finalized.