The ILC's Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts: Completion of the Second Reading Annex Table of Equivalent Articles                     Final Article Number {Provisional Article, 2000} [First reading Article]   Title         Part One: The Internationally Wrongful Act of a State         Chapter I: General Principles 1 1 1   Responsibility of a State for its internationally wrongful acts 2 2 3   Elements of an internationally wrongful act of a State 3 3 4   Characterization of an act of a State as internationally wrongful         Chapter II: Attribution of conduct to a State 4 4 5, 6, 7 (1)   Conduct of organs of a State 5 5 7 (2)   Conduct of persons or entities exercising elements of governmental authority 6 8 9   Conduct of organs placed at the disposal of a State by another State 7 9 10   Excess of authority or contravention of instructions 8 6 8 (1)   Conduct directed or controlled by a State 9 7 8 (2)   Conduct carried out in the absence or default of the official authorities 10 10 14, 15   Conduct of an insurrectional or other movement 11 11 -   Conduct acknowledged and adopted by a State as its own         Chapter III: Breach of an international obligation 12 12 16, 17, 18(1)   Existence of a breach of an international obligation 13 13 18 (2)   International obligation in force for a State 14 14 24   Extension in time of the breach of an international obligation 15 15 25   Breach consisting of a composite act         Chapter IV: Responsibility of a State in connection with the act of another State 16 16 27   Aid or assistance in the commission of an internationally wrongful act 17 17 28 (1)   Direction and control exercised over the commission of an internationally wrongful act 18 18 28 (2)   Coercion of another State 19 19 -   Effect of this Chapter         Chapter V: Circumstances precluding wrongfulness 20 20 29   Consent 21 22 34   Self-defence 22 23 30   Countermeasures in respect of an internationally wrongful act 23 24 31   Force majeure 24 25 32   Distress 25 26 33   Necessity 26 21 -   Compliance with peremptory norms 27 27 35   Consequences of invoking a circumstance precluding wrongfulness Final Article Number {Provisional Article, 2000} [First reading Article]   Title         Part Two: Content of the International Responsibility of a State         Chapter I: General Principles 28 28 36 (1)   Legal consequences of an internationally wrongful act 29 29 36 (2)   Continued duty of performance 30 30 41, 46   Cessation and non-repetition 31 31 42 (1)   Reparation 32 32 42 (4)   Irrelevance of internal law 33 34 -   Scope of international obligations set out in this Part         Chapter II: Reparation for injury 34 35 42 (1)   Forms of reparation 35 36 43   Restitution 36 37 44   Compensation 37 38 45   Satisfaction 38 39 -   Interest 39 40 42 (2)   Contribution to the injury         Chapter III: Serious breaches of obligations under peremptory norms of general international law 40 41 -   Application of this Chapter 41 42 51, 53   Particular consequences of a serious breach of an obligation under this Chapter         Part Three: The Implementation of the International Responsibility of a State         Chapter I: Invocation of the responsibility of a State 42 43 40   Invocation of responsibility by an injured State 43 44 -   Notice of claim by an injured State 44 45 22   Admissibility of claims 45 46 -   Loss of the right to invoke responsibility 46 47 -   Plurality of injured States 47 48 -   Plurality of responsible States 48 49 40   Invocation of responsibility by a State other than an injured State         Chapter II: Countermeasures 49 50 47   Objects and limits of countermeasures 50 51 50   Obligations not affected by countermeasures 51 52 49   Proportionality 52 53 48   Conditions relating to resort to countermeasures 53 55 -   Termination of countermeasures 54 54 -   Measures taken by States other than an injured State         Part Four: General Provisions 55 56 37   Lex specialis 56 33 38   Questions of State responsibility not regulated by these articles 57 57 -   Responsibility of an international organization 58 58 -   Individual responsibility 59 59 39   Charter of the United Nations
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