Abstrakt: | The foundation of international organizations has created the need to employ
in their offices qualified persons who, with the time passing, were called international
civil servants. The legal status of international civil servants, their place
in the organization and the role played towards member countries, is the subject
of the present work.
The origin of international civil servants goes back to the 19th c. administrative
unions but it was only the League of Nations which accepted this situation.
Its full development took place, however, in the latter part of the 20th c., in the
period of the so-called organizational revolution.
International law and sometimes also the domestic law of the states define
the rules of employing civil servants in the organizations. They formulate both the
conditions which the candidate for the civil servant must fulfil and the types
of his connections with the organization (Chpt. II).
International civil servants enjoy the rights and appropriate duties (Chpts. Ill
and IV). Their content and scope is the result of, first of all, the internal regulations
of the organization, sometimes enriched by the rules of the law of the host state.
The rights and duties of civil servants are accompanied by the privileges and
immunities — facilities necessary to perform their duties in the organization
(Chpt. V).
The activities of civil servants may lead to conflicts with organization authorities.
To protect their interests civil servants may make use of either administrative
procedure stipulated in the inner law of the organization or submit the existing
controversy to the competent judicial agency, i. e. administrative tribunal (Chpt. VI).
The work closes with considerations on the independence of international
civil servants towards the countries they are citizens of (Chpt. VII). And although
the rule of independence of civil servants is confirmed by the statutes of particular
organizations, still the activities of some countries are threat for this independence. |