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Status of International Law
- EnglishAt the request of the Government, or courts, the Supreme Court shall review the laws, legislative decrees, international treaties as well as international covenants for their compliance with the Constitution and their interpretation in accordance with the law. (Art. 121)
- Dariبررسی مطابقت قوانین، فرامین تقنینی، معاهدات بین الدول و میثاق های بین المللی با قانون اساسی و تفسیر آنها بر اساس تقاضای حكومت و یا محاكم، مطابق به احكام قانون از صلاحیت ستره محكمه می باشد. (مادۀ ۱۲۱)
- Pashtoله اساسي قانون سره د قوانينو، تقنيني فرمانونو، بين الدول معاهدو او بين المللي ميثاقونو د مطابقت څېړل، د حكومت يا محاكمو په غوښتنه او د هغو تفسير د قانون له حكمونو سره سم د سترې محكمې صلاحيت دى. (۱۲۱ ماده)
Status of International Law
- English
It is not permitted for any entity in the state to issue regulations, decisions, or instructions that contradict the provisions of the laws and royal decrees in force, or international treaties and agreements that are considered part of the law of the land. (Art. 97)
- Arabic
لا يجوز لأي جهة في الدولة إصدار لوائح، أو قرارات، أو تعليمات تخالف أحكام القوانين والمراسيم السلطانية النافذة، أو المعاهدات والاتفاقيات الدولية التي تعد جزءا من قانون البلاد. (المادّة ٩٧)
Status of International Law
- English1. In the Russian Federation human and civil rights and freedoms shall be recognized and guaranteed according to the universally recognized principles and norms of international law and this Constitution.
... (Art. 17) - Russian1. В Российской Федерации признаются и гарантируются права и свободы человека и гражданина согласно общепризнанным принципам и нормам международного права и в соответствии с настоящей Конституцией.
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Status of International Law
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(2) An international agreement binds the Republic only after it has been approved by resolution in both the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, unless it is an agreement referred to in subsection (3).
(3) An international agreement of a technical, administrative or executive nature, or an agreement which does not require either ratification or accession, entered into by the national executive, binds the Republic without approval by the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, but must be tabled in the Assembly and the Council within a reasonable time.
(4) Any international agreement becomes law in the Republic when it is enacted into law by national legislation; but a self-executing provision of an agreement that has been approved by Parliament is law in the Republic unless it is inconsistent with the Constitution or an Act of Parliament.
(5) The Republic is bound by international agreements which were binding on the Republic when this Constitution took effect. (Sec. 231)
Status of International Law
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25. Except for existing International Conventions, Covenants, Treaties, Protocols and Agreements entered into by Bhutan, which shall continue in force subject to section 10 of Article 1, all International Conventions, Covenants, Treaties, Protocols and Agreements duly acceded to by the Government hereafter, shall be deemed to be the law of the Kingdom only upon ratification by Parliament unless it is inconsistent with this Constitution. (Art. 10) - Dzongkha
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༢༥) རྩ་ཚན་༡ པའི་དོན་ཚན་༡༠ པ་ལས་མ་འགལ་བར་ འབྲུག་གིས་དངོས་གཏོགས་གྲུབ་པའི་ཆ་ གནས་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་ མཐུན་གྲོས་དང་ གན་འཛིན་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ དཔྱད་གཞིའི་གན་འཛིན་ གན་རྒྱ་ཚུ་ འཕྲོ་མཐུད་དེ་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིན་ཆད་གཞུང་གིས་ངོས་སྦྱོར་ཚུལ་མཐུན་གྲུབ་པའི་རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་མཐུན་གྲོས་དང་ གན་འཛིན་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ དཔྱད་གཞིའི་ གན་འཛིན་ གན་རྒྱ་བཅས་ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་དང་མ་མཐུན་ན་མ་གཏོགས་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱབ་སྣོན་གནང་ཞིནམ་ལས་ རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཁྲིམས་སྦེ་ཆ་བཞག་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༡༠༽
Status of International Law
- English1. The legal system of East Timor shall adopt the general or customary principles of international law.
2. Rules provided for in international conventions, treaties and agreements shall apply in the internal legal system of East Timor following their approval, ratification or accession by the respective competent organs and after publication in the official gazette.
3. All rules that are contrary to the provisions of international conventions, treaties and agreements applied in the internal legal system of East Timor shall be invalid. (Sec. 9) - Tetum1. Orden jurídika Timór nian adopta PRINSÍPIU sira direitu internasionál jerál nian eh hotuhotu nian.
2. Norma sira-ne’ebé mai iha konvensaun, tratadu no akordu internasionál sira-nia laran vigora iha orden lei railaran nian, wainhira hetan aprovasaun, ratifikasaun eh adezaun hosi órgaun kompetente idaidak no wainhira publika tiha ona iha jornál ofisiál.
3. Norma sira-ne’e sei la iha folin, sira latuir karik konvensaun no akordu internasionál sirane’ebé lei Timór nian simu tiha ona. (Art. 9) - Portuguese1. A ordem jurídica timorense adopta os princípios de direito internacional geral ou comum.
2. As normas constantes de convenções, tratados e acordos internacionais vigoram na ordem jurídica interna mediante aprovação, ratificação ou adesão pelos respectivos órgãos competentes e depois de publicadas no jornal oficial.
3. São inválidas todas as normas das leis contrárias às disposições das convenções, tratados e acordos internacionais recebidos na ordem jurídica interna timorense. (Art. 9)
Status of International Law
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(2) The Slovak Republic may, by an international agreement ratified and published in a manner specified by constitutional law, or on the basis of such an agreement, delegate the implementation of a part of its rights to the European Community and the European Union. Legally binding acts of the European Community and the European Union have priority over the laws of the Slovak Republic. The delegation of legally binding acts requiring implementation is effected by a law or a directive of the Government according to art. 119, paragr. 2.
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(4) For the validity of international agreements on human rights and fundamental liberties, of international political agreements, of international agreements of a military nature, of international agreements resulting in the membership of the Slovak Republic in international organisations, international business agreements of a general nature, of international agreements requiring a law to be implemented and of international agreements directly determining the rights or obligations of physical or legal persons, ratification must be subject to the agreement of the National Council of the Slovak Republic.
(5) International agreements on human rights and fundamental liberties, international agreements which do not require a law for their implementation and international agreements which directly determine the rights or obligations of physical or legal persons and which have been ratified and published by means of an established law, take precedence over laws. (Art. 7) - Slovak
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(2) Slovenská republika môţe medzinárodnou zmluvou, ktorá bola ratifikovaná a vyhlásená spôsobom ustanoveným zákonom, alebo na základe takej zmluvy preniesť výkon časti svojich práv na Európske spoločenstvá a Európsku úniu. Právne záväzné akty Európskych spoločenstiev a Európskej únie majú prednosť pred zákonmi Slovenskej republiky. Prevzatie právne záväzných aktov, ktoré vyţadujú implementáciu, sa vykoná zákonom alebo nariadením vlády podľa čl. 120 ods. 2.
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(4) Na platnosť medzinárodných zmlúv o ľudských právach a základných slobodách, medzinárodných politických zmlúv, medzinárodných zmlúv vojenskej povahy, medzinárodných zmlúv, z ktorých vzniká Slovenskej republike členstvo v medzinárodných organizáciách, medzinárodných hospodárskych zmlúv všeobecnej povahy, medzinárodných zmlúv, na ktorých vykonanie je potrebný zákon, a medzinárodných zmlúv, ktoré priamo zakladajú práva alebo povinnosti fyzických osôb alebo právnických osôb, sa vyţaduje pred ratifikáciou súhlas Národnej rady Slovenskej republiky.
(5) Medzinárodné zmluvy o ľudských právach a základných slobodách, medzinárodné zmluvy, na ktorých vykonanie nie je potrebný zákon, a medzinárodné zmluvy, ktoré priamo zakladajú práva alebo povinnosti fyzických osôb alebo právnických osôb a ktoré boli ratifikované a vyhlásené spôsobom ustanoveným zákonom, majú prednosť pred zákonmi. (Čl. 7)
Status of International Law
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court is the sole body competent to oversee the constitutionality of the following:
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- Treaties presented to it by the President of the Republic before the draft law approving them is signed.
... (Art. 120) - Arabicتختص المحكمة الدستورية دون سواها:
-بمراقبة دستورية
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- المعاهدات التي يعرضها عليها رئيس الجمهورية قبل ختم مشروع قانون الموافقة عليها.
... (الفصل 120) - FrenchLa Cour constitutionnelle est seule compétente pour contrôler la constitutionnalité :
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- des traités que lui soumet le Président de la République avant la promulgation du projet de loi relatif à l’approbation de ces traités ;
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Status of International Law
- English
The Republic of Albania applies international law that is binding upon it. (Art. 5)
- Albanian
Republika e Shqipërisë zbaton të drejtën ndërkombëtare të detyrueshme për të. (Neni 5)
Status of International Law
- English(1) Validly concluded international treaties, once officially published in Spain, shall be part of the internal legal system. Their provisions may only be repealed, amended or suspended in the manner provided for in the treaties themselves or in accordance with the general rules of international law.
... (Sec. 96) - Spanish1. Los tratados internacionales válidamente celebrados, una vez publicados oficialmente en España, formarán parte del ordenamiento interno. Sus disposiciones sólo podrán ser derogadas, modificadas o suspendidas en la forma prevista en los propios tratados o de acuerdo con las normas generales del Derecho internacional.
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