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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Consular Treaties

Nicolas Angelet

Content type:
Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

Module:
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
March 2010

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2021. All Rights Reserved.date: 24 January 2021

Subject(s):
Consular relations — Diplomatic privileges — Diplomatic immunity

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 Before it became part of customary international law and was made the object of a multilateral convention, consular law was governed by bilateral agreements determining the status of consular posts as well as consular functions, which are commonly referred to as consular treaties. Such treaties have become of less practical importance following the entry into force of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963) (‘VCCR’). Yet, irrespective of the fact that treaties entered into before the VCCR have remained in force, and that some States still conclude...
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