Consular officersĬonsular officers are qualified or honorary consular officers (especially honorary consuls) who perform their functions in the consular district they are assigned to. The letters patent of a consul are a consular commission issued by the minister responsible for the area, which certifies the appointment of the head of a consular post or the appointment of an honorary consul, who has to receive an authorisation (an exequatur) specified in Article 12 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations from the receiving state prior to performing any functions. However, a consular post headed by an honorary consul is not considered as a structural unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Under the Estonian Consular Act, consular posts are consulates general, consulates and vice-consulates. Where the first of the two primarily deals with relations between states as subjects of international law, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations focusses on protecting the interests of a state’s nationals, both individuals and bodies corporate, in receiving states through the performance of consular functions by the consular officers.Ĭonsular posts, letters patent of a consul and the exequaturĬonsular functions are performed by consular posts. The format and rules for international relations are, to an important extent, established by two international treaties: the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961 and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963.
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