Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union

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Basic data
Short title: Constitution and Convention of the ITU
Full title: Constitution and Convention of
the International Telecommunication Union
Type: international treaty
Legal matter: international law
Scope: international
Abbreviation : CONTRACT
Contracting States: approx. 200
Announcement day: 22nd December 1992
Current version: Germany:
BGBl II 2001, 365

The Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union ( English Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union ) is an international treaty that signed by almost all countries of the world and ratified was. The Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was signed on December 22, 1992 in Geneva . It is the basis of the ITU and is updated by the General Plenipotentiary Conference of the ITU.

The Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union is to replace the 1992 International Telecommunication Convention entered.

The preamble to the constitution of the International Telecommunication Union reads in the German translation (in the German Federal Law Gazette ):

In full recognition of the unrestricted right of every state to regulate its telecommunications, and in view of the growing importance of telecommunications for the maintenance of peace and the economic and social development of all states, states that are party to this Constitution have as the fundamental instrument of the International Telecommunication Union and of the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union supplementing the Constitution (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention"), with the aim of facilitating peaceful relations and international cooperation between peoples and economic and social development through efficient telecommunications services, have agreed as follows: (it follows the wording of the constitution)

In Article 4, the ITU Constitution stipulates that the following works are the ITU's policy documents:

  • the constitution
  • the convention
  • the executive regulations

The executive regulations are the executive regulations for the radio service and the executive regulations for international telecommunications services . They complement the constitution and convention of the International Telecommunication Union and are also binding for all members of the ITU.

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Individual evidence

  1. Green Paper - Frequency range allocation plan for the Federal Republic of Germany and international allocation of the frequency ranges 9 kHz - 400 GHz; 1994; issued by the BMPT; BAPT order no. 5010311 001-1; Page 8, introduction .