Legal Affairs Committee

Committee tasks

Provide legal advice to Council and update the Council on legal issues of potential relevance. Plan and execute the Law of Armed Conflict stand at the Military Competition and at the YROW workshop.

The Law of Armed Conflict is an area developing due to the changes in conflicts worldwide. Traditionally wars were between states and the present situations are demanding new solutions to new problems, piracy may be one of many examples of no state actors were old agreements are not fully applicable.

	Committee	Position	e-mail	Observers
1.	Lt Col Klaus Zulys DEU	Chair	zulys@gmx.at	Col Bill Pagan UK Maj Dr. Thomas Haag DEU
2.	Col Paul Hillmann USA	Secretary
3.	Cdr Michele Geiger-Wolf CAN	Member
4.	LtCol Nadim Bashier GBR	Member
5.	Col Wilhelm Göber AUT	Member
6.	Cpt Gergely Tóth HUN	Member

LOAC links

http://nsa.nato.int/nsa/nsdd/listpromulg.html

List of current NATO Standards including LOAC and LOAC training materials.
STANAG 2449 2nd. Edition.

LOAC-Brief.ppt