objection to its being settled by the Commission and, in particular, the Drafting Committee. which could select the most appropriate msthc!d. 39. As to the suggestion that each crime should Be examined separately to dotermine whether the notions of complicity, conspiracy or attempt were applicable to them, the Special Rapporteur thought that was an impossible tiwk, The Commission should define the three notions and leave it to the competent courts to decide whether they were applicable in specific cases brought before them. (b) $~QQ&UU 40. In his eighth report and in his presentation of draft article 15 on complicity, a/ the Special Rapporteur pointed out that paragraph 2 extended the notion of complicity to acts committed prior to the principal offence and to subsequent accessory acts. Ho observed that the notion of complicity was 2.51 The original version of draft article 16 submitted by the Special Rapporteur read as follows: The following constitute a crime against the peace and security of mankind 8 1.Being an accomplice of any of t-ho crimes defined in this Code. 2, Within the meaning of this Code, complicity may mean both accessory acts prior to or concomitant to the principal offence and subsequent accessory nets .‘I - 17 -highly complex because of the nature of the acts constituting complicity, the plurality of potwible accomplices an8 the problem of the chronological order of the acts committed. Acts of complicity were of two kinds: intellectual aats and physical acts. While it was comparatively easy to identify physical acts, the same was not truo of intellectual acts, The Special Rapporteur drew particular attention to tho difficulty of distinguishing between the perpetrator of a crime and his accomplice, If a superior officer consented to a criminal act and a subordinate carried it out, At was doubtful who was the
**Analysis**
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International Law, Humanitarian aid and relief