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PART EIGHT
STATE RESPONSIBILITY

DRAFT ARTICLES ON THE ORIGIN OF
STATE RESPONSIBILITY

By 1980 the International Law Commission had provisionally adopted
Draft articles on State responsibility for internationally wrongful acts,
constituting Part 1 of the Draft. Work is proceeding on the other parts.
However, the legal significance of the Draft articles so far adopted justi-
fies their inclusion. The Draft articles constitute evidence of the state of
general international law concerning the origin of State responsibility. See
generally: Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law, 4th ed., 1990,
pp. 432-476. The text of the Draft articles is taken from Yearbook of the
International Law Commission, 1980, Vol. II (Part Two), pp. 30-34.


CHAPTER 1. GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Article 1. Responsibility of a State for its internationally wrongful
acts
Every internationally wrongful act of a State entails the international
responsibility of that State.
Article 2. Possibility that every State may be held to have committed
an internationally wrongful act
Every State is subject to the possibility of being held to have
committed an internationally wrongful act entailing its interna-
tional responsibility.
Article 3. Elements of an internationally wrongful act of a State
There is an internationally wrongful act of a State when:
a. conduct consisting of an action or omission is attributable
to the State under international law; and

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Publication Information: Book Title: Basic Documents in International Law. Contributors: Ian Brownlie - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1995. Page Number: 426.
    
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