Art. 17 Gastlandverdrag tussen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden en de Verenigde Naties betreffende het Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in '-s Gravenhage van het United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute — Privileges, immunities and facilities of the Head of the Centre

1. The Head of the Centre, together with members of his or her family forming part of the household who are not nationals or permanent residents of the host State, shall enjoy the privileges, immunities, exemptions and facilities accorded to heads of diplomatic missions in accordance with international law and in particular under the General Convention and the provisions of the Vienna Convention. He or she shall, inter alia, enjoy: personal inviolability, including immunity from arrest or detention or any other restriction of their liberty and from seizure of their personal baggage; immunity from criminal, civil and administrative jurisdiction; inviolability of all papers and documents in whatever form and materials; immunity from national service obligations; exemption from immigration restrictions and alien registration; exemption from taxation on salaries, emoluments and allowances paid to them in respect of their employment with UNICRI; the same privileges in respect of currency and exchange facilities as are accorded to diplomatic agents; the same immunities and facilities in respect of their personal baggage as are accorded to diplomatic agents; the right to import free of duties and taxes, except payments for services, their furniture and effects at the time of first taking up their post in the host State, and to re-export their furniture and effects free of duties and taxes to their country of destination upon separation from UNICRI; for the purpose of their communications with the Centre, the right to receive and send papers in whatever form; and the same repatriation facilities in time of international crisis as are accorded to diplomatic agents under the Vienna Convention. 2. The Head of the Centre shall continue to be accorded immunity from legal process of every kind in respect of words which were spoken or written and all acts which were performed in his or her official capacity even after he or she ceased to perform his or her functions for the Centre. 3. With respect to the inheritance and gift tax, which depends upon residence, periods during which the Head of the Centre is present in the host State for the discharge of his or her functions shall not be considered as periods of residence. 4. The host State shall not be obliged to exempt from income tax pensions or annuities paid to former Heads of the Centre and the members of their family forming part of the household. 5. Persons referred to in this Article who are nationals or permanent residents of the host State shall enjoy within the host State only the privileges, immunities and facilities under Article V, Section 18 and Article VII of the General Convention, together with the following modifications and supplementary provisions: immunity from legal process of every kind in respect of words spoken or written and all acts performed by them in their official capacity, which immunity shall continue to be accorded even after they have ceased to perform their functions for the Centre; inviolability of all official papers and documents in whatever form and materials; exemption from taxation on salaries, emoluments and allowances paid to them in respect of their employment with UNICRI; for the purpose of their communications with the Centre the right to receive and send papers in whatever form; and the right to import free of duties and taxes, except payments for services, their furniture and effects at the time of first taking up their post in the host State. 6. Persons referred to in paragraph 5 of this Article shall not be subjected by the host State to any measure which may affect the free and independent performance of their functions for the Centre.

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