ABSTRACT
It is well known that, apart from Darfur, all the situations that have up to now been referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) were submitted by the State on whose territory the alleged crimes within the Court’s jurisdiction ratione materiae had taken place. They are therefore called self-referrals.1 No question of jurisdiction ratione personae would arise when the referring State is a State Party and the alleged crimes were committed after the ICC Statute entered into force for the State concerned.
