Let me now turn to para 39. At the request of several states, this para has been brought in line with the exact wording of Additional Protocol I, Article 36. The original formulation was intentionally kept shorter as the chapeau already refers to the life cycle of laws, thereby making explicit references to their study, development, acquisition or adoption, which are all stages of that life cycle, somewhat duplicative.
Statement by the Chair (GGE LAWS, 2 September 2026) 0:01
