Portugal Enacts Legislation to Assist International Criminal Tribunals

Portugal is in the process of enacting legislation in order to assist the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the Former Yugoslavia. The draft act is now pending before Parliament. After the first number of the national implementing laws, it seems that for a long time states have been inactive to adapt their national legislation in order to be able to fulfill the obligations deriving from the Statutes of the two International Criminal Tribunals. Although Portugal is rather late in this respect, the draft act shows that the government was able to profit from the examples of other national implementing laws... [more]