International Commission on Civil Status

International Commission on Civil Status
Abbreviation ICCS
Formation September 30, 1948 (1948-09-30) (provisional committee)
December 1949 (official recognition)[1][2]
Type Intergovernmental Organization
Purpose international cooperation in civil status matters and further exchange of information between registrars
Headquarters Secretariat General
Location
  • Strasbourg
Membership
7 states
Official language
French
President
 Macniven[1]
Secretary-general
 Pintens[1]
Main organ
 General Assembly
Website ciec1.org

The International Commission on Civil Status, or ICCS (French: Commission internationale de l'état civil, or CIEC), is an intergovernmental organization and the first organization created after World War II in order to work for European integration. Provisionally established in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on September 29 and 30, 1948,[2] it predates both the Council of Europe (planned since 1946 but officially founded only in 1949) and the European Union. The organisation is seated in Strasbourg, France and has 7 members and 10 former members.[3] The official language of the Commission is French.

Purpose

Founded in the post-war context of millions of refugees, missing persons and displaced people, the organization's aim was to facilitate the cooperation between States in establishing, recognizing, validating vital records or any other type of official documents used as birth, marriage, divorce or death certificates. It did so by providing standardized translations of vital terms in vital records and via multilateral conventions (for example the Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records which provided for hassle free acceptance of extracts and Convention on the recognition of decisions recording a sex reassignment on legal sex status). The ICCS has signed co-operation agreements with the Council of Europe (in 1955), the Hague Conference on Private International Law (in 1969), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (in 1981) and the European Union (in 1983).

States

States can become a member of the organisation by adhesion of to its constituting protocol ("Protocole relatif à la Commission internationale de l'état civil"), which was signed by the 5 founding members. An overview of the members and former members is shown below

StateEntry into ForceEnd of membershipcomment
Austria14 October 19618 April 2008
Belgium1 October 1950Founding member
Croatia24 April 199921 January 2015
France1 October 1950Founding member
Germany27 October 195630 June 2015
Greece3 October 1959
Hungary15 October 19996 December 2012
Italy4 October 19582 October 2014
Luxembourg1 October 1950Founding member
Mexico15 October 201016 December 2017
Netherlands1 October 1950 15 May 2018Founding member
Poland15 October 199914 December 2017
Portugal13 September 197310 January 2015
Spain13 October 1974
Switzerland1 October 1950Founding member
Turkey23 December 1953
United Kingdom11 October 199622 February 2014

Observers

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ICCS Chronicle" (PDF). International Commission on Civil Status. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Information note" (PDF). International Commission on Civil Status. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Protocole relatif à la Commission internationale de l'état civil" (PDF). Government of Switzerland. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
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