Buchowska, Natalia2013-03-072013-03-072008Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 70, 2008, z. 4, s. 29-450035-9629http://hdl.handle.net/10593/4981The deliberations included in the paper relate to the issue of international organisations exercising their competences by to make laws under the contracting out system and focus on the regulatory activity of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The types and composition of organs that adopt law making resolutions, the legal character and binding force o f those resolutions and a detailed manner in which they are passed have been analysed. The main conclusion is that law making competences are not the exclusive domain of highly institutionalised and integrated international organisations such as the European Union, but are also enjoyed by universal specialist organisations within the structures of the United National Organisation. The effect of those competences is a significant number of law making resolutions regulating such important matters as civil air transport or health protection. The paper also contains certain criticism indicating, inter alia, the difficulty for the legislation to keep pace with technological development, legislative mess, lack of transparency in law-making procedures, and last though not least, insufficient use of the available law-making instruments.plArtykuł