On legal personality of International Criminal Police Organization

The International Criminal Police Organization is both an intergovernmental organization and a legalentity with its own rights and prerogatives, which operates in concordance with principles and standards of international law. For quite along period of time there existed some doubts connected with the intergovernmental status of the organization, which in the aggregateled to the fact that originally Interpol was registered in the UN as a nongovernmental international organization. A new Charter wasaccepted in 1956. It came into effect on the 13th of June 1956, and with some amendments and additions still remains valid. As someauthors note, the essential point for the legal nature of an international organization is that its goals, principles, competence and structure,etc. have a coordinated contract basis. Such categories as international legal personality and international legal capacity are crucialfor international organization status assessment. The correct understanding of such terms as legal personality and legal capacity ofinternational organizations is the basis for defining the juridical nature of international organizations in whole and defining the legalposition of every concrete international organization particularly. Moreover, as S.S. Kupreev fairly notes, the analysis of scientific literatureand academic books on international law gives the evidence of a fact that a unified approach to defining these notions among internationaljurists does not exist today. However, the opinions of Ian Brownlie and Ye.T. Usenko, who point out several objective attributesthat define international personality of international organizations, are closer to ours. Interpol was considered by the UN Economicand Social Council (ECOSOC) as a nongovernmental organization till 1971. After a special agreement undertaking about the collaborationbetween Interpol and ECOSOC, the United Nations Organization recognized the intergovernmental status of Interpol. Interpol is anintergovernmental international organization with its own rights and prerogatives and operates in concordance with principals and standardsof international law by the power of its intergovernmental status.

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