Article 2 - Legal personality, legal capacity and applicable law

1 The ECG shall be a legal person, governed by the law of the Party, Council of Europe member State, in which it has its headquarters.

2 The ECG shall have the most extensive legal capacity accorded to legal persons under that State's national law.

3 The law applicable to the type of corporate entity chosen for the ECG by the members shall be stipulated in the agreement establishing the ECG, without prejudice to the provisions of this Protocol or to any other specific provision adopted by the party in accordance with Article 13.

4 The ECG shall have the right to its own budget and the power to implement it.

5 The ECG may enter into contracts, hire staff, acquire movable and immovable property and bring legal proceedings.