Constitutive Treaty

THE STATES SIGNATORY TO THIS TREATY,

AWARE of the profound historical, cultural and juridical ties uniting them,

HOPING to transform these ties into instruments of judicial cooperation,

ACKNOWLEDGING the important contribution to this task performed so far by the Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Luso-Hispanic American Countries, established under the Acta de Madrid of 1970,

DETERMINED to continue this work by means of a suitable international instrument,

CONSIDERING that the Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Luso-Hispanic American Countries, at the meeting in Acapulco in 1988, recommended holding an Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Conference in Spain in 1992, on the occasion of the Five Hundredth Anniversary, for the adoption of such an instrument. 

HAVE RESOLVED to adopt an International Constitutive Treaty of the Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American Countries and to this end have appointed their respective plenipotentiaries, whose powers have been recognised in good ...Download full PDF...