ARSDraft Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (UN GA RES 56/83 2001)

THE INTERNATIONALLY WRONGFUL ACT OF A STATE

Chapter I.: General principles

Art. 1 Responsibility of a State for its internationally wrongful actsArt. 2 Elements of an internationally wrongful act of a StateArt. 3 Characterization of an act of a State as internationally wrongful

Chapter II.: Attribution of conduct to a State

Art. 4 Conduct of organs of a StateArt. 5 Conduct of persons or entities exercising elements of governmental authorityArt. 6 Conduct of organs placed at the disposal of a State by another StateArt. 7 Excess of authority or contravention of instructionsArt. 8 Conduct directed or controlled by a StateArt. 9 Conduct carried out in the absence or default of the official authoritiesArt. 10 Conduct of an insurrectional or other movementArt. 11 Conduct acknowledged and adopted by a State as its own

Chapter III.: Breach of an international obligation

Art. 12 Existence of a breach of an international obligationArt. 13 International obligation in force for a StateArt. 14 Extension in time of the breach of an international obligationArt. 15 Breach consisting of a composite act

Chapter IV.: Responsibility of a State in connection with the act of another State

Art. 16 Aid or assistance in the commission of an internationally wrongful actArt. 17 Direction and control exercised over the commission of an internationallywrongful actArt. 18 Coercion of another StateArt. 19 Effect of this chapter

Chapter V.: Circumstances precluding wrongfulness

Art. 20 ConsentArt. 21 Self-defenceArt. 22 Countermeasures in respect of an internationally wrongful actArt. 23 Force majeureArt. 24 DistressArt. 25 NecessityArt. 26 Compliance with peremptory normsArt. 27 Consequences of invoking a circumstance precluding wrongfulness