Independent Monitoring Commission
- Independent Monitoring Commission
The Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) is an organization founded on 7 January, 2004, by a treaty between the British and Irish governments, signed in Dublin on 25 November, 2003.
The IMC's remit includes:
* monitoring any continuing activity by paramilitary groups.
* monitoring the commitment by the British Government to a package of security normalization measures.
* handling claims by parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly that a Minister, or another party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, is not committed to non-violence and exclusively peaceful and democratic means, or that a Minister has failed to observe any other terms of the pledge of office, or that a party is not committed to such of its members as are or might become Ministers observing the other terms of the pledge of office.
The IMC submits formal reports to both the British Government and Irish Government.
Sinn Féin have issued legal proceedings against the IMC, through their solicitors in London, Howe & Co, alleging that the IMC Commissioners are "apparently biased" and challenging the IMC's application (or non-application) of a standard of proof in its assessments and reports presented to the two Governments.
Commissioners
Four commissioners are involved:
* Lord Alderdice, former Alliance Party leader; former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and current peer in the British House of Lords.
* Joe Brosnan, former Secretary General of the Department of Justice, Republic of Ireland.
* John Grieve, former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and former head of the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terror Branch.
* Dick Kerr, former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency.
See also
* Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
External links
* [http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/treaties/docs/200401.pdf International treaty establishing the Independent Monitoring Commission]
* [http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/politics/imcreports.htm Reports by the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC)] — from the CAIN project at the University of Ulster
* [http://www.independentmonitoringcommission.org/ IMC website]
* [http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=67764&pt=n UTV website (Sinn Féin's legal action against IMC)]
* [http://www.sinnfein.ie/gaelic/news/detail/12206 Sinn Féin website (Sinn Féin's legal action against the IMC)]
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