![]() ![]() ![]() The occupying power's responsibilities include inter alia the obligation to ensure humane treatment of the local population and to meet their needs, the respect of private properties, management of public properties, the functioning of educational establishments, ensuring the existence and functioning of medical services, allowing relief operations to take place as well as allowing impartial humanitarian organizations such as the ICRC to carry out their activities. It aims to ensure the protection and welfare of the civilians living in occupied territories. In general terms, occupation law endeavours to strike a balance between the security needs of the occupying power on the one hand, and the interests of the ousted power and the local population on the other. It is presumed that occupation will be temporary and that the occupying power shall preserve the status quo ante in the occupied territory. Under occupation law, the occupying power does not acquire sovereignty over the occupied territory and is required to respect the existing laws and institutions of the occupied territory as far as possible. Provisions regulating occupation can be found in The Hague Regulations of 1907, the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and Additional Protocol I of 1977. ![]() Occupation law - as a branch of IHL - regulates the partial or total occupation of a territory by a hostile army. ![]()
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