Amendment to the Rome Statute of the ICC Suppressing the "Opt-out" Clause on War Crimes (Article 124)

The paper comments the adoption by Italian Parliament of Law No. 200 of 4 December 2017, containing the authorization to ratification and the order of execution of the Amendment to Article 124 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court adopted by the Assembly of States Party by resolution ICC No. 2 of 26 November 2015. The Amendment consists in writing off from the Statute the transitional norm that allowed any state, when ratifying the Statute, to make a declaration in order to exclude, for the period of seven years, the competence of the ICC in respect of war crimes committed on its territory or by its nationals.