Law-ref.org Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
Site search

include [Global Index]


ARTICLE-1: DEFINITIONS     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (d) "consular officer" means any person, including the head of a consular post, entrusted in that capacity with the exercise of consular functions; ...


ARTICLE-35: FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. The receiving State shall permit and protect freedom of communication on the part of the consular post for all official purposes. In communicating with the Government, the diplomatic missions and other consular posts, wherever situated, of the sending State, the consular post may employ all appropriate means, including diplomatic or consular couriers, diplomatic or consular bags and messages in code or cipher. However, the consular post may install and use a wireless transmitter only with the consent of the receiving State. ...


ARTICLE-49: EXEMPTION FROM TAXATION     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (d) dues and taxes on private income, including capital gains, having its source in the receiving State and capital taxes relating to investments made in commercial or financial undertakings in the receiving State; ...


ARTICLE-50: EXEMPTION FROM CUSTOMS DUTIES AND INSPECTION     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) articles for the personal use of a consular officer or members of his family forming part of his household, including articles intended for his establishment. The articles intended for consumption shall not exceed the quantities necessary for direct utilization by the persons concerned. ...


ARTICLE-54: OBLIGATIONS OF THIRD STATES     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 3. Third States shall accord to official correspondence and to other official communications in transit, including messages in code or cipher, the same freedom and protection as the receiving State is bound to accord under the present Convention. They shall accord to consular couriers who have been granted a visa, if a visa was necessary, and to consular bags in transit, the same inviolability and protection as the receiving State is bound to accord under the present Convention. ...