On 17 October 2023, the House of Representatives asked the Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law (CAVV) for an advisory report on the long-term consequences of establishing an alternative tribunal for the crime of aggression and other options for prosecuting Russia’s President Putin.
Download in het Engels: 45. The long-term consequences of establishing an alternative tribunal for the crime of aggression and other options for prosecuting Russia’s President Putin
Download in het Engels: Government response to Advisory report 45 – June 11, 2024
Content
In this advisory report, the CAVV deals with:
- a description of the various alternatives in terms of the scope offered by international law for prosecuting Russian crimes in Ukraine
- a description of the various alternatives for prosecuting President Putin
- an explanation of the possible added value or necessity of an alternative tribunal for the crime of aggression
- an explanation of the usefulness and necessity of amending article 15 bis of the Rome Statute to enable the International Criminal Court to exercise jurisdiction over crimes of aggression committed by a state that is not a party to the Statute in the territory of a state that is
- an analysis of the consequences for the international legal order of the establishment of an aggression tribunal (in whatever form), with a specific focus on the expected effects on the functioning of the International Criminal Court in particular.
The CAVV builds on its advisory report no. 40 from 2022 on challenges in prosecuting the crime of aggression (jurisdiction and immunities).
Government response
The Government response download is a translation of the official government response in Dutch (PDF: Kabinetsreactie op CAVV-advies nr. 45 over de consequenties op de lange termijn van het oprichten van een alternatief tribunaal om de misdaad van agressie te berechten en andere mogelijkheden om de Russische president Poetin te berechten).