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{{Short description|Intergovernmental organization}}
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| formation = September 1948 (provisional)<br>December 1949 (official)
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| purpose = Promote international cooperation in civil status matters and improve the functioning of national civil status services
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| location = [[Strasbourg]], [[France]]
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| membership = 6 members (5 member states and the Francophone Notary Association)<br>7 observer states
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| leader_name = İbrahim Taşyapan
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| leader_name2 = Nicolas Nord
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The '''International Commission on Civil Status''', or ICCS ({{langx|fr|Commission internationale de l'état civil}}, or CIEC), is an  [[intergovernmental organisation]] whose aim is to promote international cooperation in [[Civil registration|civil status]] matters and to improve the functioning of national civil status services.<ref name=presentation>{{cite web |url=https://ciec1.org/en/ |title=Presentation of the ICCS |publisher=International Commission on Civil Status}}</ref> It was provisionally founded in September 1948 in [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]], and officially recognised by an [[Treaty|exchange of letters]] in December 1949 and two [[Protocol (politics)|protocols]] in 1950 and 1952.<ref name=history>{{cite web |url=https://ciec1.org/en/history/ |title=History |publisher=International Commission on Civil Status}}</ref> The organisation is seated in [[Strasbourg]], [[France]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ciec1.org/en/contact-en/ |title=Contact |publisher=International Commission on Civil Status}}</ref> and its official language is [[French language|French]].

== Purpose ==
Founded after [[World War II]] in the context of millions of [[refugee]]s, [[missing person|missing]] and [[Forced displacement|displaced people]], the organisation's aim was to facilitate the cooperation between states in establishing, recognising and validating [[Civil registration|civil status]] documents, also known as [[vital record]]s, such as [[birth certificate|birth]], [[marriage certificate|marriage]] and [[death certificate]]s. It did so by drafting international treaties such as the [[Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records]], which provides standard multilingual formats of vital records, allowing their international acceptance without the need for [[translation]] or [[document legalization|legalisation]]. Later conventions drafted by the ICCS include the [[Convention on the recognition of decisions recording a sex reassignment]].

== Members ==
[[File:Carte de la Commission internationale de l'état civil.png|thumb|400px|Current and former member states and observer states of the ICCS]]
The ICCS was created by five founding member states in 1948. In 1952, a protocol opened the organisation to accession by any state.<ref name=history/> By 1999, 11 more states had acceded to the ICCS, reaching a peak of 16 member states. After 2007, only one more state acceded and 12 states left the organisation, resulting in only five member states by 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://treatydatabase.overheid.nl/en/Treaty/Details/007620 |title=Protocol relating to the International Commission on Civil Status |publisher=Treaty Database of the Netherlands}}</ref> In 2024, the Francophone Notary Association, representing 28 states,{{efn|[[Belgium]], [[Benin]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Burkina Faso]], [[Cameroon]], [[Central African Republic]], [[Chad]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[France]], [[Gabon]], [[Guinea]], [[Ivory Coast]], [[Lebanon]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Madagascar]], [[Mali]], [[Mauritius]], [[Morocco]], [[Niger]], [[North Macedonia]], [[Poland]], [[Quebec]], [[Republic of the Congo]], [[Romania]], [[Senegal]], [[Switzerland]], [[Togo]], [[Tunisia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://notariat-francophone.org/ |title=Association du notariat francophone |trans-title=Francophone Notary Association |publisher=Francophone Notary Association |language=fr}}</ref>}} joined the organisation as a non-state member.<ref name=presentation/>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Member state !! Ratification !! Start of membership !! data-sort-type=date|Renunciation !! data-sort-type=date|End of membership
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|{{flag|Austria}} || 14 September 1961 || 14 October 1961 || 8 October 2007 || 8 April 2008
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|{{flag|Belgium}} || 25 September 1950 || 1 October 1950 || – || –
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|{{flag|Croatia}} || 25 March 1999 || 24 April 1999 || 21 July 2014 || 21 January 2015
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|{{flag|France}} || 25 September 1950 || 1 October 1950 || 17 May 2019 || 17 November 2019
|-
|{{flag|Germany}} || 27 September 1956 || 27 October 1956 || 31 December 2014 || 30 June 2015
|-
|{{flag|Greece}} || 3 September 1959 || 3 October 1959 || 30 June 2021 || 30 December 2021
|-
|{{flag|Hungary}} || 15 September 1999 || 15 October 1999 || 6 June 2012 || 6 December 2012
|-
|{{flag|Italy}} || 4 September 1958 || 4 October 1958 || 2 April 2014 || 2 October 2014
|-
|{{flag|Luxembourg}} || 25 September 1950 || 1 October 1950 || – || –
|-
|{{flag|Mexico}} || 15 September 2010 || 15 October 2010 || 15 June 2017 || 15 December 2017
|-
|{{flag|Netherlands}} || 25 September 1950 || 1 October 1950 || 15 November 2017 || 15 May 2018
|-
|{{flag|Poland}} || 9 September 1998 || 9 October 1998 || 14 June 2017 || 14 December 2017
|-
|{{flag|Portugal}} || 13 September 1973 || 13 October 1973 || 10 July 2014 || 10 January 2015
|-
|{{flag|Spain}} || 13 September 1974 || 13 October 1974 || – || –
|-
|{{flag|Switzerland}} || 25 September 1950 || 1 October 1950 || – || –
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}} || 24 September 1953 || 23 December 1953 || – || –
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} || 11 September 1996 || 11 October 1996 || 22 August 2013 || 22 February 2014
|}

Several states are observers of the organisation:<ref name=presentation/>
*[[Cyprus]] (from 24 March 1999)
*[[Holy See]] (lifetime)
*[[Lithuania]] (from 23 March 1994)
*[[Moldova]] (from 28 March 2006)
*[[Romania]] (from 9 September 2008)
*[[Slovenia]] (from 27 March 1996)
*[[Sweden]] (lifetime)

== See also ==
*[[European institutions in Strasbourg]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.ciec1.org/en}}

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