TY - BOOK ID - 7151074 TI - Multilateral environmental agreements : legal status of the secretariats PY - 2010 SN - 9780521883283 0521883288 9780511776939 9781107610514 1107610516 1107211247 0511848455 9786612655265 0511775547 0511776934 0511776306 0511774788 0511772653 1282655264 0511773722 9780511776304 9780511848452 9781107211247 9781282655263 6612655267 9780511775543 9780511773723 9780511772658 9780511774782 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Environmental law, International KW - Foreign trade regulation KW - International trade KW - International labor activities KW - Environmental law, International. KW - Foreign trade regulation. KW - International labor activities. KW - International trade. KW - Law KW - General and Others KW - Labor activities, International KW - Labor unions KW - External trade KW - Foreign commerce KW - Foreign trade KW - Global commerce KW - Global trade KW - Trade, International KW - World trade KW - Commerce KW - International economic relations KW - Non-traded goods KW - Export and import controls KW - Foreign trade control KW - Import and export controls KW - International trade control KW - International trade regulation KW - Prohibited exports and imports KW - Trade regulation KW - International environmental law KW - International law KW - Common heritage of mankind (International law) KW - International cooperation KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7151074 AB - The present study seeks to examine the genesis, development, and proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) - in-built law-making mechanisms and processes of institutionalization - and their ad hoc treaty-based status and the issue of the legal personality of their secretariats. It provides legal understanding of the location of MEA secretariats within an existing international host institution, as well as discussion of the issue of relationship agreements and interpretation of the commonly used language that triggers such relationships. It places under scrutiny the standard MEA phrase 'providing a secretariat', delegation of authority by the host institution to the head of the convention secretariat, possible conflict areas, host country agreement, and the workings of the relationship agreements. The book offers an authoritative account of the growing phenomenon in which an existing international institution provides a servicing base for MEA that, in turn, triggers a chain of legal implications involving the secretariat, the host institution, and the host country. ER -