Commentary on provisions of Act Section 27: the EU and Euratom and related organisations and bodies
This section amends an existing power, exercisable by Her Majesty by Order in Council, under the International Organisations Act 1968 to provide for the conferral of privileges and immunities on organisations and bodies in relation to which the UK will have obligations by virtue of its future relationship with the EU and Euratom, as well as on the EU and Euratom themselves.
	Subsection (1) provides that section 4B of the International Organisations Act 1968 is amended in accordance with the rest of the section.
	Subsection (2) is a textual amendment to the title of section 4B of the International Organisations Act 1968 so that it refers to "the EU and Euratom and related organisations and bodies".
	Subsection (3) amends section 4B(1) of the International Organisations Act 1968 so that the power applies to the EU, Euratom, or any EU or Euratom organisation or body that the UK or Her Majesty’s Government owes obligations to under the terms of any international agreement entered into by the UK or Her Majesty’s Government.
	Subsections (4) and (5) make textual amendments to sections 4B(2) and 4B(3) of the International Organisations Act 1968 to ensure that the powers to provide privileges and immunities under section 4B(2) of the International Organisations Act 1968 may be conferred upon the EU, Euratom, and any relevant EU or Euratom organisations and bodies.
	Subsection (6) inserts a new section 4B(3A) into the International Organisations Act 1968 to ensure that the power conferred by section 4B(2) includes the power to make any appropriate consequential amendments. These are amendments that may be needed as a result of the EU, Euratom or any relevant EU or Euratom organisation being granted privileges and immunities under section 4B(2) of the International Organisations Act 1968. This includes the power to amend retained EU law.
	Subsection (7) inserts definitions of "body" and "EU or Euratom organisation or body" into section 4B of the International Organisations Act 1968.