The Organizational Framework of the United Nations in Relation to the Control of Drugs

Abstract

By the Protocol of 1946,⁷ the governments signatory to the various narcotic treaties concluded before the Second World War, transferred to the appropriate agencies of the United Nations the power and functions exercised by the League agencies in this area of international law. The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations took over, inter alia, the functions of the League Council and the Assembly concerning control of narcotic drugs, and the Opium Advisory Committee of the League ceased to exist. At its first session in February 1946, the Economic and Social Council created the Commission on Narcotic Drugs,⁸ and entrusted it with the power and functions which were exercised by the League’s Opium Advisory Committee. The Single Convention of Narcotic Drugs, 1961 (hereinafter called “the Single Convention”), abolished the Permanent Central Narcotics Board and the Supervisory Body on 2 March 1968, when the International Narcotics Control Board came into being.