Most importantly, the ASEAN Charter establishes that the ASEAN Secretariat and Secretary- General enjoy the usual privileges and immunities of working for a supranational organ, like the Com- mission in the EU.69 This is in keeping with the ASEAN Charter’s provision of international legal personality for ASEAN.70 The ASEAN leaders also agreed that the Secretariat’s professional staff would “be appointed on the principle of open recruitment” and that “representation of all ASEAN countries in the Secretariat” should be ensured.71 The ASEAN Charter attempts to address this issue by authorizing the ASEAN Secretariat to monitor the implementation of community decisions and rulings by ASEAN member governments.72 However, unlike what the Treaty of Rome does for the European Commission, the ASEAN Charter does not assign any coercive authority to the ASEAN Secretariat or Secretary-General, and the ASEAN Secretariat is given only the power of adverse pub- licity through regular reports on implementation.73 Many scholars have pointed out that ASEAN should establish EU-style supranational institutions with rule-making organs such as an ASEAN leg- islative mechanism, an organizational executive mechanism for the implementation of rules and decisions, as well as a judicial institution for interpreting and enforcing ASEAN rules and decisions. However, ASEAN seems to be failing at building an institution that is supranational in nature, viz. “ASEAN Commission”, to expedite regional integration. The main reason often comes from ASEAN leaders’ predisposition to give priority to domestic interests over ASEAN-wide interests.