AGLC4 Rule 14.5: Documents of Other Supranational Parliaments, Councils, Bodies, etc

Other documents of parliaments, councils and similar bodies of supranational organisations (other than the EU) are cited by the organisation, the author or body, the title, the document number, the parliament, council, session or meeting, the full date and a pinpoint. The organisation is not repeated where the author or body name already includes it. Untitled documents may omit the title, as much of the session detail and date as is available is given.

AGLC4 page 208

Formatting

  • Each element is followed by a comma, including the date where a pinpoint follows.
  • The organisation and the author or body are roman.
  • The organisation is left out when the name of the author or body already contains it.
  • The title is italic; any quotation inside it uses curly single quotation marks.
  • The document number is introduced by Doc No, roman, without full stops, and is reproduced exactly.
  • Session details keep the body's own abbreviations, such as parl, ord sess or extraord period sess, in lower case without full stops, with superscript ordinals.
  • Where there is no session detail, the date follows the number or title after a comma; a date range uses an unspaced en dash, and a year alone is enough where that is all the document shows.
  • A page pinpoint is a bare number after the comma that follows the date.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 208
  1. 44
    Assembly of the African Union, Decision on the Scale of Assessment and Alternative Sources of Financing the African Union, Doc No Assembly/AU/Dec.578(XXV), 25th ord sess, 14–15 June 2015. [Not: African Union, Assembly of the African Union…]
  2. 45
    African Union, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Fair Trial and Legal Assistance in Africa, Doc No DOC/OS(XXX)247, 2003.
  3. 46
    African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan, Final Report of the African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan, 15 October 2014, 14.
  4. 47
    Chairman of the ASEAN Standing Committee on the Situation in the Korean Peninsula, Statement by the Chairman of the ASEAN Standing Committee on the Situation in the Korean Peninsula at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Informal Meeting, Karambunai, Sabah, Malaysia, 19 March 2003. [Not: Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Chairman of the ASEAN Standing Committee on the Situation in the Korean Peninsula…]
  5. 48
    Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Secretary-General, Dr Surin Pitsuwan’s Remarks at the Ceremony for the Deposit of Myanmar’s Instrument of Ratification of the ASEAN Charter, 21 July 2008.
  6. 49
    Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Report on Admissibility: Raul Rolando Romero Feris, Doc No OEA/Ser.L/V/II.Doc.5, 152nd extraord period sess, 29 January 2015.
  7. 50
    Organization of American States, General Assembly, Declaration on the Question of the Malvinas Islands, Doc No AG/DEC 72 (XLIII-O/13), 43rd regular session, 4–6 June 2013, 3.

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 208
  • African Union, Assembly of the African Union…
    the organisation is not repeated because the body's name already includes it
  • Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Chairman of the ASEAN Standing Committee on the Situation in the Korean Peninsula…
    the organisation is not repeated because the author's title already includes it

Elements of a document of another supranational body

Quoted from the Guide, page 208
ElementExample
Supranational OrganisationAfrican Union,
Author or Relevant BodyPan-African Parliament,
Document TitleResolution on the Campaign on ‘Press Freedom for Development and Governance: Need for Reform’,
Document NumberDoc No PAP/P(3)/RES/08(1),
Parliament, Council, Session, Meeting, etc3rd parl, 1st ord sess,
Full Date8–19 October 2012,
Pinpoint Reference1

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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.