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The immunities of States and international organisations

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Member State

Greece

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Type of document

Jurisprudence

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http://www.cahdidatabases.coe.int/C/Immunities/Greece/1991/470

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Database of the CAHDI "The immunities of States and international organisations" - contribution of Greece - Jurisprudence of 01/01/1991

X v. Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, judgment 479/1991

Author(ity)

Court of Appeals of Crete

Date of the decision, of the judgment

01/01/1991

Points of law

International Organisations are not entitled to immunity from jurisdiction of domestic Courts for acts they have performed as fiscus. Under the contrary hypothesis there could be no jurisdiction with regard to the greatest part of private law cases involving the organisation.

Summary of the case

As stated above, international organisations are not entitled to immunity from jurisdiction of domestic Courts for acts they have performed as fiscus. Otherwise, there could be no jurisdiction on the greatest part of private law cases involving an international organisation. This is because the latter would enjoy immunity from jurisdiction in all its Member States, it does not possess any territory of its own and, only incidentally could a lawsuit be brought against it in a third country according to the rules on jurisdiction applying in each state.

Sources

Epitheorissi Ergatikou Dikaiou (in greek) Journal of Labour Law 1992 p. 503