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Edits based on the fact that this treaty is the anticrist of legal language, and many articles make no sense at all.  
 
Edits based on the fact that this treaty is the anticrist of legal language, and many articles make no sense at all.  
  
==Major Treatise of the Concordat (As suggested by Knoot)==  
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==Major Treatise of the Concordat (As suggested by Knoot, amended by Jester)==  
  
===Treaty of Mutual Executive Responsibility.===
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===Treaty of Mutual Executive Responsibility, Defence and Security===
  
This is treaty is mandatory for concordat membership and to gain a seat upon the council of the concordat. Its points are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified before Concordat membership is approved.
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The present treaty entails concordat membership and gaining of a seat upon the Council of the Concordat. The points as outlined below are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified before Concordat membership enters into force.
  
 
Article 1 Council of the Concordat<br>
 
Article 1 Council of the Concordat<br>
a. The Council of the Concordat shall be the meeting place of plenipotentiaries of signatory nations. <br>  
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a. The Council of the Concordat shall consist of plenipotentiaries of Signatory Nations (hereon: signatories). <br>  
b. All signatories are bound to have a permanent representative at the Council of the Concordat.<br>
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b. All signatories are bound to have a permanent plenipotentiary representative at the Council of the Concordat. The signatories appoint their plenipotentiaries with respect to their national law. <br>
 
c. All signatories will accept joint responsibility for the running, actions and funding for the office of the Council of the Concordat as outlined in the Institutions of the Concordat.<br>
 
c. All signatories will accept joint responsibility for the running, actions and funding for the office of the Council of the Concordat as outlined in the Institutions of the Concordat.<br>
  
 
Article 2 Council rulings<br>
 
Article 2 Council rulings<br>
a. The Council of the Concordat may make rulings about transconcordat actions, the institutions of the concordat and modifications to the treatise of the concordat. The signatories agree to abide by the rulings of the Council of the Concordat.<br>  
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a. The Council of the Concordat may make rulings on the foreign policy of the Concordat, on the institutions of the Concordat and modifications to the treatise of the Concordat. The signatories agree to abide by the rulings of the Council of the Concordat.<br>  
b. Failure to abide rulings shall be reviewed and signatory nations found to be in breach may suffer temporary suspension from the Council if this is decided by a simple majority in the Council. <br>
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b. Failure to abide rulings shall be reviewed and signatory nations found to be in breach may suffer temporary suspension from the Council if this is decided by a qualified majority in the Council. <br>
 
c. The council of the Concordat may adopt resolutions by majority vote.<br>
 
c. The council of the Concordat may adopt resolutions by majority vote.<br>
  
 
Article 3 Non-agression<br>
 
Article 3 Non-agression<br>
a. If a signatory nation acts militarily against another signatory, this member shall be suspended from the Council of the Concordat pending review by the Council. The decision to suspend a member has to be taken by a majority. <br>
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a. If a signatory acts militarily against another signatory, this member shall be suspended from the Council of the Concordat pending review by the Council. The decision to suspend a member has to be taken by a qualified majority. <br>
b. A no confidence vote can be called at any time in relation to any specific member, this vote once called requires a majority vote to be carried. If such a vote is carried the nation in question shall be ejected from the Concordat.<br>
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b. A no confidence vote can be called at any time in relation to any specific member, this vote once called requires a qualified majority vote to be carried. If such a vote is carried the nation in question shall be ejected from the Concordat.<br>
c. If the government a signatory nation commits or authorises crimes against sentiency, as set in the legal code of the nation against which the crimes are being committed, the Council of the Concordat is authorised to take measures against the perpetrating signatory nation if the Council of the Concordat decides to do so by a majority vote.<br>
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c. If the government of a signatory nation commits or authorises crimes against sentiency, as set in the legislation of the nation against which the crimes are being committed, the Council of the Concordat is authorised to take measures against the perpetrating signatory nation.  Such a measure requires a majority vote by the Council of the Concordat.<br>
  
'''Signatories'''
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Article 4 Mutual Defence <br>
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a. All signatories shall defend the territorial integrity of their fellow signatories if this integrity is breached by hostile non-signatories. <br>
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b. No signatory who undertakes an aggressive or expansionist war shall have the right to assistance by the rest of the Concordat until that signatory’s territorial integrity is breached.<br>
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c. No signatory who uses weapons of mass destruction on a non Concordat state shall retain the right to mutual defence until reviewed by the Council of the Concordat.<br>
  
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[[Euroslavia]]
 
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===Treaty of Mutual Concordat Defence and Security.===
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Article 5 Concordat Rapid Response Force<br>
This treaty is mandatory for concordat membership and to gain a seat upon the council of the concordat. Its points are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified before Concordat membership is approved.
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This treaty is to insure the mutual defence and security of all signatories.
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Article 1 The Security Council of the Concordat<br>
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a. Signatories agree to abide by the rulings of the Security Council of the Concordat. Any signatory who does not abide by these rulings shall be reviewed and may suffer suspension.<br>
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b. All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Security Council of the Concordat as outlined in the Institutions of the Concordat.<br>
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Article 2 Concordat Rapid Response Force<br>
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All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Rapid Response Force (C.R.R.F.), the Concordat Security Failsafe Force (C.S.F.F.), the Concordat Security Force (C.S.F), the Concordat Central Traffic Control (C.C.T.C.) and the Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative (C.S.D.I.) as outlined in the Institutions of the Concordat.<br>
 
All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Rapid Response Force (C.R.R.F.), the Concordat Security Failsafe Force (C.S.F.F.), the Concordat Security Force (C.S.F), the Concordat Central Traffic Control (C.C.T.C.) and the Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative (C.S.D.I.) as outlined in the Institutions of the Concordat.<br>
  
Article 3 Mutual Defence <br>
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Article 6 Banned Organisations <br>
a. All signatories shall defend the territorial integrity of their fellow signatories if this integrity is breached by hostile non-signatories. <br>
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a. The Council of the Concordat decides on what organizations are to be added to the Central List of Banned Organisations.<br>
b. No signatory who undertakes an aggressive or expansionist war will have the right to assistance by the rest of the concordat until that signatories territorial integrity is breached.<br>
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b. No signatory may harbour or assist any member of these organizations, nor otherwise lend support to these organisations.<br>
c. No signatory who uses weapons of mass destruction on a non concordat state shall retain the right to mutual defence until reviewed by the Security Council of the Concordat.<br>
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c. The signatories must attempt to liquidate these organisations by the means foreseen by their national legislation. At any time the assistance of their fellow concordat members may be called upon in this.<br>
  
Article 4 Banned Organisations <br>
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Article 7 Voluntary withdrawal from the Concordat<br>
A central list of prohibited organisations is to be created and pending the approval of the council of the concordat the following shall be carried out. No nation who is a signatory may harbour and or assist any member of these organisations and must attempt to liquidate these organisations by any means within their own legal code. At any time the assistance of their fellow concordat members may be called upon in this.<br>
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a. A signatory has the right to withdraw from the Concordat at any time it chooses.<br>
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b. It is left at the discretion of the Council of the Concordat on whether to compensate or reimburse the funds invested by the withdrawing signatory into the Institutions of the Concordat.<br>
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d. The right to voluntary withdrawal shall not be valid if the signatory has been suspended or is under review by the Council of the Concordat. Upon the expiry of suspension, the signatory shall be able to withdraw voluntarily.
  
'''Signatories'''
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Article 8 Ejection from the Concordat<br>
 
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a. The Council of the Concordat may eject a signatory by a qualified majority vote.<br>
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b. The ejected nation shall have no right to compensation or reimbursement of the funds invested into the Institutions of the Concordat. The material and financial assets of the ejected nation that are under the authority of the Concordat at the time of the ejection shall pass fully into Concordat ownership.
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==Treaty of Trans Concordat Health Interests.==
 
==Treaty of Trans Concordat Health Interests.==
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This treaty is optional for concordat membership. Its points are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified.
 
This treaty is optional for concordat membership. Its points are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified.
  
Article 1
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Article 1 Public Health
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All signatories shall strive to preserve the health and lives of their citizens by whatever means they choose however they will under the treaty of Executive Responsibility face review if their acts detriment the health of any other Concordat state or impact upon their Nations wellbeing to a level where it damages the Concordat.
 
All signatories shall strive to preserve the health and lives of their citizens by whatever means they choose however they will under the treaty of Executive Responsibility face review if their acts detriment the health of any other Concordat state or impact upon their Nations wellbeing to a level where it damages the Concordat.
  
Article 2  
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Article 2 Institutions
a. All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation (C.D.R.O.) and as outlined in the institutions of the Concordat.  
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a. All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation (C.D.R.O.) and as outlined in the institutions of the Concordat.  
  
 
b. All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Health Organisation (C.H.O.) as outlined in the institutions of the Concordat.  
 
b. All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Health Organisation (C.H.O.) as outlined in the institutions of the Concordat.  
  
Article 3 All signatories shall allow full territorial access to the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation and the Concordat Health Organisation.
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Article 3 Access
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All signatories shall allow full territorial access to the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation and the Concordat Health Organisation.
  
  
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==Treaty of Trans Concordat Financial intrests and stability.==
 
==Treaty of Trans Concordat Financial intrests and stability.==
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==The Institutions of the Concordat==
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==The Institutions of the Concordat (Amendment by Jester)==
  
  
 
===The Council of the Concordat===
 
===The Council of the Concordat===
  
The Council of the Concordat is made up of the state executive officers who have signed the treaties of the Concordat. While plenipotentiaries of these executive offices will be accepted in extenuating circumstances it is to be the actual person of the each nations executive who takes the seat upon the council. It will meet biannually to evaluate the major institutions of the Concordat. It will aso review and negotiate any legislative changes to the treaties of the concordat. Minor changes to treatise will require a majority of nations and major changes or new treatise requiring a universal agreement not including states which have been suspended. Suspended member states will loose all rights to a seat at the council of the Concordat. Each state has two votes upon the council. If for any reason a tie is reached in voting the decision will go back to the floor of the council to be re debated. Any member state who breaks ratified treatise of Concordat will automatically be suspended from this body. Any member who has a vote of no confidence in their states executive carried by a 90% majority of the Council of the Concordat shall be suspended.
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====Political Powers====
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The Council of the Concordat is made up of the state executive officers who have signed the treaties of the Concordat. The nations appoint their plenipotentiaries in respect to their own law, but these representatives shall have the authority to vote and speak in the name of their nation in the Council. <br>
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It will meet biannually to evaluate the major institutions of the Concordat. It will also review and negotiate any legislative changes to the treaties of the concordat. Minor changes to treatise will require a majority of nations and major changes or new treatise requiring a universal agreement, excluding states which have been suspended. Suspended member states will lose their right to vote at the Council of the Concordat. Each state has two votes upon the council. If for any reason a tie is reached in voting the decision will go back to the floor of the Council for a new debate.  
  
===The Office of the Council of the Concordat===
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====Military Powers====
  
The Office of the Council of the Concordat is to run the day to day bureaucratic operations of the institutions of Concordat. The heads of each Concordat institution are to be drawn from this office and must be nominated by a member state for the post, win a majority vote by the council to head that institution and pass a mandatory merit test that is considerably higher than the merit test given for entry into the Office of the Council of the Concordat. All applicants to the office of the council of the concordat must pass mandatory loyalty and merit tests to insure the highest standards. Their loyalty is to lie with the Council of the Concordat and no one member state.
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The Council of the Concordat shall evaluate the Concordat’s security and well being. It has the power of deploying, under its own aegis, the dedicated Concordat Rapid Response Force (C.R.R.F.), the Concordat Stability Force (C.S.F.), the Inter Concordat Police organisation InterConPol, the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation (C.D.R.O) the Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative the C.S.D.I. or calling upon the treaty members to fully mobilise their national military assets. <br>
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While the Council can call for the mobilisation of member state military assets it may not overrule their command structures, but merely suggest courses of action. The Council may not declare an aggressive war in the name of the Concordat or any member state without convening an emergency session. However, it may declare a defensive war in the name of the Concordat. <br>
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The Council may in extreme situations deploy the Concordat Security Failsafe Force (C.S.F.F.)
  
===The Security Council of the Concordat===
 
  
With a yearly rotating executive of five nations executives this body will be charged with evaluating threats to the Concordats security and well being and will be capable of under its own aegis deploying the dedicated Concordat Rapid Response Force (C.R.R.F.), the Concordat Stability Force also known as concordat peace keepers (the C.S.F.) the Inter Concordat Police organisation InterConPol, the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation (C.D.R.O) the Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative the C.S.D.I. or calling upon the treaty members to fully mobilise their national military assets. While the Council can call for the mobilisation of member state military assets it may not over rule their command structures merely suggest courses of action. No suspended state may hold a seat upon the Security Council. The Security Council may not declare an aggressive war in the name of the Concordat or any member state without convening an emergency session of The Council of the Concordat however it may declare a defensive war in the name of the Concordat. The Security Council may in extreme situations deploy the Concordat Security Failsafe Force. The C.S.F.F. Any member state who breaks ratified treatise of Concordat will automatically be suspended from this body. Any member who has a vote of no confidence in their states executive carried by a 90% majority of the Council of the Concordat shall be suspended.
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===The Office of the Council of the Concordat===
  
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The Office of the Council of the Concordat is to run the day to day bureaucratic operations of the institutions of Concordat. The heads of each Concordat institution are to be drawn from this office and must be nominated by a member state for the post, win a majority vote by the council to head that institution and pass a mandatory merit test that is considerably higher than the merit test given for entry into the Office of the Council of the Concordat. All applicants to the office of the council of the concordat must pass mandatory loyalty and merit tests to insure the highest standards. Their loyalty is to lie with the Council of the Concordat and no one member state.
  
 
===The Concordat Rapid Response Force===
 
===The Concordat Rapid Response Force===
  
The C.R.R.F is to be deployed when rapid military intervention is needed within or without the Concordat. Their loyalty and training will be to the Concordat and no single member state. There force is to be designed for rapid movement and maximum force application in the name of the Concordat. The C.R.R.F. are to report and to be at the disposal of the Security Council of the Concordat. The C.R.R.F. are to be made up of recruits from every concordat state evaluated on personnel merit and ability via a strenuous series of tests. The C.R.R.F. are to at no point be capable of challenging the sovereignty of the member state forces but are to be equipped with the highest standards of equipment to fulfil their duties. In times of declared war under mutual consent of the members of the concordat the central C.R.F.F. planning corp. shall act as a high command for all consenting concordat forces.
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The C.R.R.F is to be deployed when rapid military intervention is needed within or outside of the Concordat. Their loyalty and training will be to the Concordat and no single member state. The force is to be designed for rapid movement and maximum force application in the name of the Concordat. <br>
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The C.R.R.F. are to report and to be at the disposal of the Council of the Concordat. The C.R.R.F. are to be made up of recruits from every concordat state evaluated on personnel merit and ability via a strenuous series of tests. The C.R.R.F. are to at no point be capable of challenging the sovereignty of the member state forces but are to be equipped with the highest standards of equipment to fulfill their duties. In times of declared war under mutual consent of the members of the concordat the central C.R.F.F. planning corps shall act as a high command for all consenting concordat forces.
  
 
===The Concordat Security Failsafe Force===
 
===The Concordat Security Failsafe Force===
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===The C.S.F. (Concordat Peace Keepers)===
 
===The C.S.F. (Concordat Peace Keepers)===
  
The C.S.F. is to be deployed to promote stability via the application of limited force. Not a battle field military unit the C.S.F. is designed to act as a paramilitary police force in unstable member states by request of their executive or by request in non concordat states. The C.S.F. cannot enter a member state without the express permission of that states executive as recognised by the Concordat. The C.S.F. is empowered once it has entered a state to use non lethal force against instigators of instability and only to resort to lethal force if it is used upon them. The C.S.F. members are to be recruited proportionally from all Concordat Member States. The C.S.F. deployed forces will report to the Security Council and the Council of the Concordat. No member states executive who has been suspended may deny entry of the C.S.F. into said nation.
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The C.S.F. is to be deployed to promote stability via the application of limited force. Not a battle field military unit, the C.S.F. is designed to act as a paramilitary police force in unstable member states by request of their executive. The intervention of the C.S.F. may also be requested to intervene by non-signatories in their own territories.<br>
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The C.S.F. cannot enter a member state without the express permission of that state’s executive as recognised by the Concordat. However, a suspended state shall lose its authority over the C.S.F. and shall not have the right to demand the withdrawal of the force, including from the suspended signatory’s own territory. The C.S.F. cannot be deployed into a suspended signatory’s territory after the suspension has been pronounced.<br>
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The C.S.F. is empowered once it has entered a state to use non lethal force against instigators of instability and only to resort to lethal force if it is used upon them. The C.S.F. members are to be recruited proportionally from all Concordat Member States. The C.S.F. deployed forces will report to the Council of the Concordat.  
  
 
===The Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative===
 
===The Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative===
  
The Concordat Strategic Defence initiative the C.S.D.I. is to consist of a force of mutually supporting battle platforms, satellites and ground stations. By each member states ratification that member states own S.D.I. system may be networked into the C.S.D.I. The C.S.D.I.’s primary function is to stop any ballistic attacks upon concordat members. They are to report to the Security Council and the Council of the Concordat. Funding is to be proportional to each states defence budget.
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The Concordat Strategic Defence initiative the C.S.D.I. is to consist of a force of mutually supporting battle platforms, satellites and ground stations. By each member states ratification that member states own S.D.I. system may be networked into the C.S.D.I. The C.S.D.I.’s primary function is to stop any ballistic attacks upon concordat members. They are to report to the Council of the Concordat. Funding shall be set by the Council of the Concordat.
  
 
===Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation===
 
===Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation===
  
The C.D.R.O.: Empowered to contact foreign nations under their own aegis the C.D.R.O. will be equipped with specifically built disaster relief assets consisting of at least 10 large starships and the right to overrule concordat central traffic control to respond to disasters within the smallest possible time. The C.D.R.O.’s mission is to protect sentient life in times of disaster no matter ideology race or location. The C.D.R.O. shall be a proportionately funded institution of the Concordat and self administering, reporting to the Council of the Concordat itself and the Security Council.
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Empowered to contact foreign nations under their own aegis the C.D.R.O. will be equipped with specifically built disaster relief assets consisting of at least 10 large starships and the right to overrule concordat central traffic control to respond to disasters within the smallest possible time. The C.D.R.O.’s mission is to protect sentient life in times of disaster no matter ideology, race or location. The C.D.R.O. shall be self administering, reporting to the Council of the Concordat. Funding shall be set by the Council of the Concordat.
  
 
===Concordat Development Fund===
 
===Concordat Development Fund===
  
The C.D.F. is a central development fund to be used to improve the economic stability and growth of the concordat as a whole and to act as a central funding body for major Trans Concordat infrastructure projects. Its executives loyalty is to be to the greater good of the concordat and not any one member state. The C.D.F. is also to evaluate and request the placement of Economic Development Zones. (E.D.Z.’s). Any member found to be misappropriating C.D.F. funds for non C.D.F. projects shall suffer sever fines and review of the incident before the Council of the Concordat.
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The C.D.F. is a central development fund to be used to improve the economic stability and growth of the concordat as a whole and to act as a central funding body for major Trans Concordat infrastructure projects. Its executives’ loyalty is to be to the greater good of the concordat and not any one member state. The C.D.F. is also to evaluate and request the placement of Economic Development Zones. (E.D.Z.’s). Any member found to be misappropriating C.D.F. funds for non C.D.F. projects shall suffer sever fines and review of the incident before the Council of the Concordat.
  
 
===Economic Development Zones===
 
===Economic Development Zones===
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===Concordat Central Traffic Control===
 
===Concordat Central Traffic Control===
  
C.C.T.C. are to be charged with expediting the movement of Trans Concordat traffic and the safety of said traffic. The C.C.T.C. is to standardise aerospace traffic control standards throughout the Concordat and to evaluate the safety and air/sea/space/land worthiness of all craft therein to a set of mutually agreeable ratified standards.
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C.C.T.C. are to be charged with expediting the movement of Trans Concordat traffic and the safety of said traffic. The C.C.T.C. is to standardise aerospace traffic control standards throughout the Concordat and to evaluate the safety and air/sea/space/land worthiness of all craft therein to a set of mutually agreeable ratified standards. The C.C.T.C. shall not overrule nor replace the nation’s own Central Traffic Control institutions.
 
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===The Concordat Central Banking and Financial Organisation===
 
===The Concordat Central Banking and Financial Organisation===
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===The Inter Concordat Police Organisation===
 
===The Inter Concordat Police Organisation===
  
InterConPol. This organisation is to promote inter concordat police and or security force co-operation, to have an active Trans Concordat investigative units to investigate crimes which cross Concordat member states borders (though each crime shall be individually tried by the laws and courts of the member state where they were committed and the sentences served in each state in chronological order of the crime committed. They are also to investigate crimes committed by members of concordat staff. They are to report to the council of the concordat, the security council and each nations police forces. Their members are to be drawn proportionately from each member nations police forces on five year terms of duty. Relatively small in numbers they are to mostly act as a liaison body between concordat member states security or police forces.
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This organisation is to promote inter concordat police and or security force co-operation, to have an active Trans Concordat investigative units to investigate crimes which cross Concordat member states borders (though each crime shall be individually tried by the laws and courts of the member state where they were committed and the sentences served in each state in chronological order of the crime committed.  
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They are also to investigate crimes committed by members of concordat staff. They are to report to the Council of the Concordat. Their members are to be drawn proportionately from each member nations police forces on five year terms of duty. Relatively small in numbers they are to mostly act as a liaison body between concordat member states security or police forces.
  
 
===Concordat Health Organisation===
 
===Concordat Health Organisation===
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===The Concordat Science and Education Organisation===
 
===The Concordat Science and Education Organisation===
  
C.S.E.O. Is empowered to promote research and development via grant aid, to promote Trans concordat research efforts and to administer Trans concordat student exchange programs. It is also to administer education in jointly administered concordat territories. Its funding is voluntary by each member nation and is to report to the council of the Concordat and the Security Council.
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C.S.E.O. Is empowered to promote research and development via grant aid, to promote Trans concordat research efforts and to administer Trans concordat student exchange programs. It is also to administer education in jointly administered concordat territories. Its funding is voluntary by each member nation and is to report to the Council of the Concordat.
  
  
 
===The Concordat Colony Authority===
 
===The Concordat Colony Authority===
  
The C.C.A. is to actively evaluate areas found by the Star Scouts for habitable areas for sentient civilised habitation and make them fit for said habitation. They are to administer these colonies for the good of the Concordat and to absorb excess population growth from the member states while providing new markets for Trans Concordat trade. The are to report to the Council of the Concordat and the Security Council. Concordat Colonies will be administered by governors appointed by the Council of the Concordat.
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The C.C.A. is to actively evaluate areas found by the Star Scouts for habitable areas for sentient civilised habitation and make them fit for said habitation. They are to administer these colonies for the good of the Concordat and to absorb excess population growth from the member states while providing new markets for Trans Concordat trade. The are to report to the Council of the Concordat. Concordat Colonies will be administered by governors appointed by the Council of the Concordat.
  
 
===The Star Scouts===
 
===The Star Scouts===

Latest revision as of 16:47, 9 February 2006

Edits based on the fact that this treaty is the anticrist of legal language, and many articles make no sense at all.

Major Treatise of the Concordat (As suggested by Knoot, amended by Jester)

Treaty of Mutual Executive Responsibility, Defence and Security

The present treaty entails concordat membership and gaining of a seat upon the Council of the Concordat. The points as outlined below are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified before Concordat membership enters into force.

Article 1 Council of the Concordat
a. The Council of the Concordat shall consist of plenipotentiaries of Signatory Nations (hereon: signatories).
b. All signatories are bound to have a permanent plenipotentiary representative at the Council of the Concordat. The signatories appoint their plenipotentiaries with respect to their national law.
c. All signatories will accept joint responsibility for the running, actions and funding for the office of the Council of the Concordat as outlined in the Institutions of the Concordat.

Article 2 Council rulings
a. The Council of the Concordat may make rulings on the foreign policy of the Concordat, on the institutions of the Concordat and modifications to the treatise of the Concordat. The signatories agree to abide by the rulings of the Council of the Concordat.
b. Failure to abide rulings shall be reviewed and signatory nations found to be in breach may suffer temporary suspension from the Council if this is decided by a qualified majority in the Council.
c. The council of the Concordat may adopt resolutions by majority vote.

Article 3 Non-agression
a. If a signatory acts militarily against another signatory, this member shall be suspended from the Council of the Concordat pending review by the Council. The decision to suspend a member has to be taken by a qualified majority.
b. A no confidence vote can be called at any time in relation to any specific member, this vote once called requires a qualified majority vote to be carried. If such a vote is carried the nation in question shall be ejected from the Concordat.
c. If the government of a signatory nation commits or authorises crimes against sentiency, as set in the legislation of the nation against which the crimes are being committed, the Council of the Concordat is authorised to take measures against the perpetrating signatory nation. Such a measure requires a majority vote by the Council of the Concordat.

Article 4 Mutual Defence
a. All signatories shall defend the territorial integrity of their fellow signatories if this integrity is breached by hostile non-signatories.
b. No signatory who undertakes an aggressive or expansionist war shall have the right to assistance by the rest of the Concordat until that signatory’s territorial integrity is breached.
c. No signatory who uses weapons of mass destruction on a non Concordat state shall retain the right to mutual defence until reviewed by the Council of the Concordat.


Article 5 Concordat Rapid Response Force
All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Rapid Response Force (C.R.R.F.), the Concordat Security Failsafe Force (C.S.F.F.), the Concordat Security Force (C.S.F), the Concordat Central Traffic Control (C.C.T.C.) and the Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative (C.S.D.I.) as outlined in the Institutions of the Concordat.

Article 6 Banned Organisations
a. The Council of the Concordat decides on what organizations are to be added to the Central List of Banned Organisations.
b. No signatory may harbour or assist any member of these organizations, nor otherwise lend support to these organisations.
c. The signatories must attempt to liquidate these organisations by the means foreseen by their national legislation. At any time the assistance of their fellow concordat members may be called upon in this.

Article 7 Voluntary withdrawal from the Concordat
a. A signatory has the right to withdraw from the Concordat at any time it chooses.
b. It is left at the discretion of the Council of the Concordat on whether to compensate or reimburse the funds invested by the withdrawing signatory into the Institutions of the Concordat.
d. The right to voluntary withdrawal shall not be valid if the signatory has been suspended or is under review by the Council of the Concordat. Upon the expiry of suspension, the signatory shall be able to withdraw voluntarily.

Article 8 Ejection from the Concordat
a. The Council of the Concordat may eject a signatory by a qualified majority vote.
b. The ejected nation shall have no right to compensation or reimbursement of the funds invested into the Institutions of the Concordat. The material and financial assets of the ejected nation that are under the authority of the Concordat at the time of the ejection shall pass fully into Concordat ownership.

Treaty of Trans Concordat Health Interests.

This treaty is optional for concordat membership. Its points are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified.

Article 1 Public Health

All signatories shall strive to preserve the health and lives of their citizens by whatever means they choose however they will under the treaty of Executive Responsibility face review if their acts detriment the health of any other Concordat state or impact upon their Nations wellbeing to a level where it damages the Concordat.

Article 2 Institutions

a. All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation (C.D.R.O.) and as outlined in the institutions of the Concordat.

b. All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Concordat Health Organisation (C.H.O.) as outlined in the institutions of the Concordat.

Article 3 Access

All signatories shall allow full territorial access to the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation and the Concordat Health Organisation.


Signatories Zepplin Manufacturers Midlonia Hallad Tiburon


Treaty of Trans Concordat counter criminality and security force co-operation.

This treaty is optional for concordat membership. Its points are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified.


Article 1 The signatories security forces shall submit all felons identities and known locations to a central concordat database.

Article 2 The signatories security forces shall assist security forces of other signatories via the Inter Concordat Police Organisation as outlined in the institutions of the Concordat.

Article 3 All citizens of the signatory nations shall be bound by the laws of the Concordat nation they inhabit.


Article 4 All signatories will accept responsibility for the running, actions and funding of the Inter Concordat Police Organisation as outlined in the institutions of the Concordat.

Signatories Zepplin Manufacturers Midlonia Hallad Tiburon

Treaty of Trans Concordat Financial intrests and stability.

This treaty is optional for concordat membership. Its points are non negotiable, binding, and must be fully ratified.

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The Institutions of the Concordat (Amendment by Jester)

The Council of the Concordat

Political Powers

The Council of the Concordat is made up of the state executive officers who have signed the treaties of the Concordat. The nations appoint their plenipotentiaries in respect to their own law, but these representatives shall have the authority to vote and speak in the name of their nation in the Council.
It will meet biannually to evaluate the major institutions of the Concordat. It will also review and negotiate any legislative changes to the treaties of the concordat. Minor changes to treatise will require a majority of nations and major changes or new treatise requiring a universal agreement, excluding states which have been suspended. Suspended member states will lose their right to vote at the Council of the Concordat. Each state has two votes upon the council. If for any reason a tie is reached in voting the decision will go back to the floor of the Council for a new debate.

Military Powers

The Council of the Concordat shall evaluate the Concordat’s security and well being. It has the power of deploying, under its own aegis, the dedicated Concordat Rapid Response Force (C.R.R.F.), the Concordat Stability Force (C.S.F.), the Inter Concordat Police organisation InterConPol, the Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation (C.D.R.O) the Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative the C.S.D.I. or calling upon the treaty members to fully mobilise their national military assets.
While the Council can call for the mobilisation of member state military assets it may not overrule their command structures, but merely suggest courses of action. The Council may not declare an aggressive war in the name of the Concordat or any member state without convening an emergency session. However, it may declare a defensive war in the name of the Concordat.
The Council may in extreme situations deploy the Concordat Security Failsafe Force (C.S.F.F.)


The Office of the Council of the Concordat

The Office of the Council of the Concordat is to run the day to day bureaucratic operations of the institutions of Concordat. The heads of each Concordat institution are to be drawn from this office and must be nominated by a member state for the post, win a majority vote by the council to head that institution and pass a mandatory merit test that is considerably higher than the merit test given for entry into the Office of the Council of the Concordat. All applicants to the office of the council of the concordat must pass mandatory loyalty and merit tests to insure the highest standards. Their loyalty is to lie with the Council of the Concordat and no one member state.

The Concordat Rapid Response Force

The C.R.R.F is to be deployed when rapid military intervention is needed within or outside of the Concordat. Their loyalty and training will be to the Concordat and no single member state. The force is to be designed for rapid movement and maximum force application in the name of the Concordat.
The C.R.R.F. are to report and to be at the disposal of the Council of the Concordat. The C.R.R.F. are to be made up of recruits from every concordat state evaluated on personnel merit and ability via a strenuous series of tests. The C.R.R.F. are to at no point be capable of challenging the sovereignty of the member state forces but are to be equipped with the highest standards of equipment to fulfill their duties. In times of declared war under mutual consent of the members of the concordat the central C.R.F.F. planning corps shall act as a high command for all consenting concordat forces.

The Concordat Security Failsafe Force

The C.S.F.F. is to be equipped with space based high energy precision weapons to be used in retaliation for an attack upon any state of the Concordat with weapons of mass destruction. These weapons are to be used to neutralise with minimal civilian casualties launch sites, orbital weapons platforms, or other hostile facilities or single space vessels and to neutralise the offending states military high command but leave that states executive intact for further prosecution and or actions by Concordat military or diplomatic forces. This institution is to fall under the aegis of the Security Council and the Council of the Concordat. These weapons are to at no time be capable of engaging and winning against the sovereign forces of the member states of the Concordat. These weapons systems are to be deployed with utmost security and are to be as powerful as fiscally and physically possible. It is up to each state whether or not to add forces to the C.S.F.F. or fund C.S.F.F. weapons.

The C.S.F. (Concordat Peace Keepers)

The C.S.F. is to be deployed to promote stability via the application of limited force. Not a battle field military unit, the C.S.F. is designed to act as a paramilitary police force in unstable member states by request of their executive. The intervention of the C.S.F. may also be requested to intervene by non-signatories in their own territories.
The C.S.F. cannot enter a member state without the express permission of that state’s executive as recognised by the Concordat. However, a suspended state shall lose its authority over the C.S.F. and shall not have the right to demand the withdrawal of the force, including from the suspended signatory’s own territory. The C.S.F. cannot be deployed into a suspended signatory’s territory after the suspension has been pronounced.
The C.S.F. is empowered once it has entered a state to use non lethal force against instigators of instability and only to resort to lethal force if it is used upon them. The C.S.F. members are to be recruited proportionally from all Concordat Member States. The C.S.F. deployed forces will report to the Council of the Concordat.

The Concordat Strategic Defence Initiative

The Concordat Strategic Defence initiative the C.S.D.I. is to consist of a force of mutually supporting battle platforms, satellites and ground stations. By each member states ratification that member states own S.D.I. system may be networked into the C.S.D.I. The C.S.D.I.’s primary function is to stop any ballistic attacks upon concordat members. They are to report to the Council of the Concordat. Funding shall be set by the Council of the Concordat.

Concordat Disaster Relief Organisation

Empowered to contact foreign nations under their own aegis the C.D.R.O. will be equipped with specifically built disaster relief assets consisting of at least 10 large starships and the right to overrule concordat central traffic control to respond to disasters within the smallest possible time. The C.D.R.O.’s mission is to protect sentient life in times of disaster no matter ideology, race or location. The C.D.R.O. shall be self administering, reporting to the Council of the Concordat. Funding shall be set by the Council of the Concordat.

Concordat Development Fund

The C.D.F. is a central development fund to be used to improve the economic stability and growth of the concordat as a whole and to act as a central funding body for major Trans Concordat infrastructure projects. Its executives’ loyalty is to be to the greater good of the concordat and not any one member state. The C.D.F. is also to evaluate and request the placement of Economic Development Zones. (E.D.Z.’s). Any member found to be misappropriating C.D.F. funds for non C.D.F. projects shall suffer sever fines and review of the incident before the Council of the Concordat.

Economic Development Zones

Economic Development Zones are to be low tax areas with high levels of C.D.F. funded infrastructure. They are to be constructed throughout economically deprived areas of the Concordat and in areas which show economic stagnation. Goods generated in E.D.Z. zones are to be exempt from national customs charges.

Concordat Central Traffic Control

C.C.T.C. are to be charged with expediting the movement of Trans Concordat traffic and the safety of said traffic. The C.C.T.C. is to standardise aerospace traffic control standards throughout the Concordat and to evaluate the safety and air/sea/space/land worthiness of all craft therein to a set of mutually agreeable ratified standards. The C.C.T.C. shall not overrule nor replace the nation’s own Central Traffic Control institutions.

The Concordat Central Banking and Financial Organisation

This organisation is to have at its disposal the C.D.F to stabilise member states economies, is to be responsible for Trans Concordat economic planning and banking standards, the eventual creation of a central concordat stock market and the abolishment of customs between member nations of the Concordat. It is also to act to prevent acts of economic invasion or terrorism. It is to have at its disposal a unit of the investigative section of InterConPol to investigate Trans concordat financial crime and money laundering.

The Inter Concordat Police Organisation

This organisation is to promote inter concordat police and or security force co-operation, to have an active Trans Concordat investigative units to investigate crimes which cross Concordat member states borders (though each crime shall be individually tried by the laws and courts of the member state where they were committed and the sentences served in each state in chronological order of the crime committed.

They are also to investigate crimes committed by members of concordat staff. They are to report to the Council of the Concordat. Their members are to be drawn proportionately from each member nations police forces on five year terms of duty. Relatively small in numbers they are to mostly act as a liaison body between concordat member states security or police forces.

Concordat Health Organisation

The C.H.O is to be empowered with the authority to stop Trans Concordat disease outbreaks via quarantine, to promote Concordat wide health and to start Concordat wide immunisation and health education programs. To stockpile counter agents against possible Trans Concordat biological attacks.

The Concordat Science and Education Organisation

C.S.E.O. Is empowered to promote research and development via grant aid, to promote Trans concordat research efforts and to administer Trans concordat student exchange programs. It is also to administer education in jointly administered concordat territories. Its funding is voluntary by each member nation and is to report to the Council of the Concordat.


The Concordat Colony Authority

The C.C.A. is to actively evaluate areas found by the Star Scouts for habitable areas for sentient civilised habitation and make them fit for said habitation. They are to administer these colonies for the good of the Concordat and to absorb excess population growth from the member states while providing new markets for Trans Concordat trade. The are to report to the Council of the Concordat. Concordat Colonies will be administered by governors appointed by the Council of the Concordat.

The Star Scouts

This body is to be equipped with the best long range scouting vessels available to complete a complete survey of the known galaxy and to find in that galaxy any resource useful to the Concordat and civilization. Funding is to be voluntary by each member state. The Star Scouts shall report to the Council of the Concordat and the Concordat Colony Authority.