*). Most of the following documentary surveys, relating to Netherlands State Practice, International Agreements, Judicial Decisions, and Dutch literature, are based on documentation carried out by the Public International Law Department of the T.M.C. Asser Institute, and are –and will normally in the future be– edited by staff members of the Institute. For that reason the systematic classification scheme used in the surveys is also the one employed in the above mentioned Institute for its documentation in the field of public international law. This classification scheme as reproduced on the following pages is based upon the “Model Plan for the Classification of Documents concerning State Practice in the field of Public International Law”, as adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Resolution 68(17) of June 28, 1968. The “Plan” has been elaborated and expanded by the T.M. C. Asser Institute to make it suitable for use in its public international law documentation projects.

With regard to national legislation, quite often municipal statutory regulations are enacted in various fields having relevance to international law. In so far as it would not be possible to present adequately such legislation in the survey of State Practice, we propose to reproduce the whole or part of (a translation of) the text, or include a descriptive or analytical survey of such regulations.