Annotations to the Draft Guidelines for the Domestic Facilitation and Regulation of International Disaster Relief and Initial Recovery Assistance

These annotations provide some background on the provision of the draft Guidelines and
summarize the legal precedents upon which they are based. They are merely explanatory
and are not themselves proposed for formal adoption. The text of the Guidelines is listed
here in italics and the commentary is in standard type.

Please note that the full text of the instruments cited in these annotations is available on
the IDRL Programme’s online database at http://www.ifrc.org/idrl.