Abstract
The chapter identifies obstacles, but also possible solutions, which are connected to the unclear status of international organisations within the system of international humanitarian law. It focuses on conditions of material and personal applicability of IHL, as well as the question of legal basis and scope of IHL rules applicable to international organisations.
The chapter concludes that application of IHL to international organisations is not only possible and desirable, but it is also possible to identify the legal basis and scope of the applicable rules, even though not without due consideration to specific character of IHL and limitations resulting from (legal) peculiarities of international organisations.