TREATIES DIVISION
DJZ/VE-501/07
The Hague, 13 June 2007
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands presents its compliments to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys (hereinafter referred to as ITC-UNESCO) and, with reference to the Agreement between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys of 5 September 1977 and 1 June 1978, the Exchange of Notes of 22 November/ 7 December 2005 between the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and ITC-UNESCO and to discussions between the Ministry and ITC-UNESCO regarding employment opportunities of members of the families forming part of the household of the officials of ITC-UNESCO, has the honour to propose the following in respect of the privileges and immunities of the staff of ITC-UNESCO:
Members of the family forming part of the household of all categories of officials in the service of ITC-UNESCO shall be authorised to engage in gainful employment in the Netherlands for the duration of the term of office of the officials concerned.
The following persons are members of the family forming part of the household in the sense of paragraph 1:
the spouses or registered partners of officials in the service of ITC-UNESCO;
children of officials in the service of ITC-UNESCO who are under the age of 18;
children of officials in the service of ITC-UNESCO who are aged 18 or over, but not older than 27, provided that they formed part of the official’s household prior to their first entry into the Netherlands and still form part of this household, and that they are unmarried, financially dependent on the official concerned and are attending fulltime education in the Netherlands;
children of officials in the service of ITC-UNESCO who are aged 18 or over, but not older than 23; they shall also be recognized as members of the family forming part of the household if they are not studying as long as they are unmarried and financially dependent on the official concerned.
Persons mentioned in paragraph 2 who obtain gainful employment shall enjoy no immunity from criminal, civil or administrative jurisdiction with respect to matters arising in the course of or in connection with such employment. However, any measures of execution shall be taken without infringing the inviolability of their person or of their residence, if they are entitled to such inviolability.
In case of the insolvency of a person aged under 18 with respect to a claim arising out of a gainful employment of that person, the immunity of the official in the service of ITC-UNESCO of whose family the person concerned is a member shall be waived for the purpose of settlement of the claim, in accordance with the provisions of the applicable ITC-UNESCO International Law agreements.
The employment referred to in paragraph 1 shall be in accordance with Netherlands legislation, including fiscal and social security legislation, unless any other applicable international legal instrument provides otherwise.
If this proposal is acceptable to ITC-UNESCO, the Ministry proposes that this Note and ITC-UNESCO’s affirmative reply to it shall together constitute an Agreement between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and ITC-UNESCO. This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of receipt of ITC-UNESCO’s reply by the Ministry.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands avails itself of this opportunity to renew to ITC-UNESCO the assurances of its highest consideration.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys
ITC
Our ref.: D07.561/MM/ms
Enschede, 27 June 2007
Subject: Employment opportunities for members of the families
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and has the honour to acknowledge receipt of the Ministry’s Note DJZ/VE-501/07 of 14Noot redactie: lees ‘‘13’’. June 2007, which reads as follows:
(zoals in Nota Nr. I)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys has the honour to inform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the proposal is acceptable to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys accordingly agrees that the Ministry’s Note and this reply shall constitute an Agreement between the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which shall enter into force on the date of receipt of this reply.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation concerning the ITC-UNESCO Centre for Integrated Surveys avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands the assurances of its highest consideration.
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken
Treaties Division (DJZ/VE)
Attn. Mr. G. Limburg, Director
Bezuidenhoutseweg 67
2594 AC DEN HAAG