Travaux préparatoires
Travaux préparatoires: the records produced by preparatory committees, expert groups, negotiating groups, etc., in the negotiations for a treaty or a convention. These records can give valuable guidance to the intentions of the drafters when ambiguous language has to be interpreted later, but this only works properly with consensus documents. Individual members of an agreement may make use of other, not agreed, travaux préparatoires to support their case in a dispute, but they still have to demonstrate that their interpretation is to be preferred. Article 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties sees travaux préparatoires as something to be employed with discretion and in the main only when the treaty text itself is not sufficiently clear to allow a single interpretation or when it would lead to a manifestly absurd or unreasonable result.
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