The purpose of the national commissions of implementation (also called committees for the implementation of IHL or national humanitarian law committees) is to advise and assist the government in implementing and spreading knowledge of IHL. See Implementation; Dissemination;

 DOCUMENT

ICRC Advisory Service, Fact Sheet on National Committees for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

 CASES

Romania, Voluntary Report
Ivory Coast, National Interministerial Commission

 BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

  KÜNTZIGER Isabelle, “Le droit international humanitaire au plan national : impact et rôle des Commissions nationales”, in IRRC, No. 846, June 2002, pp. 489-494.   OFFERMANS Marc, “The Belgian Interdepartmental Commission for Humanitarian Law”, in IRRC, No. 281, March-April 1991, pp. 154-166.   PELLANDINI Cristina (ed.), Committees or other National Bodies for International Humanitarian Law: Report of the Meeting of Experts: Geneva, 23-25 October 1996, Geneva, ICRC, March 1997, 130 pp.