
This collection of documents comprises the Annual Report on the activity of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), a summary of the conclusions reached by the Governing Council of UNIDROIT at its annual session, the report on the annual session of the General Assembly of UNIDROIT member States, the final texts of instruments prepared under the auspices of UNIDROIT, documents concerning current work on instruments adopted as well as the preparatory work, consisting of the studies and reports of the various working groups and committees of governmental experts, on items on the UNIDROIT Work Programme.
INSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS
SUMMARY OF THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED BY THE GOVERNING COUNCIL AT ITS 79TH SESSION
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study L - Doc. 66
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study L - Misc. 22
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study L - WP.1
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study L - WP.2
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study L - WP.3
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study L - WP.4
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study L - WP.5
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 21
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 22
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 23
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 24
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 25
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 26
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 27
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 28
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXIX - Doc. 9
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXIX - Doc. 10
UNIDROIT 2000 - Etude LXIX - Doc. 11
UNIDROIT Committee of governmental Experts for the preparation of a draft Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and a draft Protocol thereto on Matters specific to Aircraft Equipment / Sub-Committee of the ICAO Legal Committee on the study of international interests in mobile equipment (aircraft equipment). Third Joint Session (Rome, 20-31 March 2000)
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXXII H - Doc. 2
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXXII H - Doc. 3
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXXII H - Doc. 4
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXXII J - Doc. 2
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXXVI - Doc. 2 Add.
Governing Council: 79th session (Rome, 10-13 April 2000)
CURRENT WORK ON ITEMS ON THE UNIDROIT WORK PROGRAMME
UNIDROIT 2000 - C.D. (79) 2
General Assembly, 54th session (Rome, 30 November 2000)

ANNUAL REPORT 1999 – Rome, 2000
UNIDROIT 2000 - A.G. (54) 6
MINUTES (prepared by the UNIDROITSecretariat) - Rome, January 2001
Study L – Principles of International Commercial Contracts
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study L - Doc. 62 bis
Study LXV - Programme of Legal Co-operation
Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts. SET-OFF (Position paper prepared by Professor C. Jauffret-Spinosi) – Rome, January 2000
[This is the English language version of UNIDROIT 1999 - Study L - Doc. 62 issued in 1999.]
Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts. CHAPTER [...] THIRD PARTY RIGHTS (Draft prepared by Professor M. Furmston) – Rome, January 2000
Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts. SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE MEETING HELD IN CAIRO FROM 24 TO 27 JANUARY 2000 (Prepared by the Secretariat of UNIDROIT) – Rome, August 2000
Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Meeting of the Drafting Group in Freiburg, 17-20 January 2001. CHAPTER [...] AUTHORITY OF AGENTS (Revised draft prepared by Professor M.J. Bonell in the light of the discussions of the Working Group at its 3rd session held in Cairo, 24-27 January 2000) – Rome, December 2000
Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Meeting of the Drafting Group in Freiburg, 17-20 January 2001. CHAPTER [...] LIMITATION OF RIGHTS (Revised draft prepared by Professor Peter Schlechtriem in the light of the discussions of the Working Group at its 3rd session held in Cairo, 24-27 January 2000) – Rome, December 2000
Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Meeting of the Drafting Group in Freiburg, 17-20 January 2001. CHAPTER [...] ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS, TRANSFER OF DUTIES, ASSIGNMENT OF CONTRACTS (Revised draft prepared by Professor M. Fontaine in the light of the discussions of the Working Group at its 3rd session held in Cairo, 24-27 January 2000) – Rome, December 2000
Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Meeting of the Drafting Group in Freiburg, 17-20 January 2001. CHAPTER [...] SET-OFF (Paper prepared by Professor Camille Jauffret-Spinosi) – Rome, December 2000
Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Meeting of the Drafting Group in Freiburg, 17-20 January 2001. CHAPTER [...] THIRD PARTY RIGHTS (Revised draft prepared by Professor M. Furmston in the light of the discussions of the Working Group at its 3rd session held in Cairo, 24-27 January 2000) – Rome, December 2000
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXV – Doc. 13
Study LXVIII – International Franchising

Research Scholarships Programme for legal scholars, government officials, judges and practitioners from developing countries or from countries in economic transition. ASSESSMENT – THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS (1993-1999)
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXVIII - Doc. 20
Study LXIX – Organisation of a UNIDROIT information system or data base on uniform law

Study Group on Franchising. Fourth Session, Rome, 9-10 December 1999. REPORT (prepared by the Secretariat) – Rome, June 2000
Study Group on Franchising. MODEL FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE LAW. Text of the Preliminary Draft as adopted by the Study Group at its Fourth Session, held in Rome from 9 to 10 December 1999, with DRAFT EXPLANATORY REPORT prepared by the UNIDROIT Secretariat – Rome, August 2000
Study Group on Franchising. MODEL FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE LAW. COMMENTS submitted by Mr Souichirou Kozuka, Associate Professor of Law, Sophia University (Tokyo) – Rome, October 2000
Study Group on Franchising. MODEL FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE LAW. PROPOSAL submitted by Mr Philip Zeidman, Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe LLP (Washington, D.C.) – Rome, October 2000
Study Group on Franchising. MODEL FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE LAW. POSITION PAPER submitted by the European Franchise Federation (EFF) – Rome, November 2000
Study Group on Franchising. MODEL FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE LAW. PROPOSAL FOR A PREFACE TO THE MODEL LAW submitted by Messrs István Kiss, Secretary-General and CEO of the Hungarian Franchise Association (Budapest) and Philip Zeidman, Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe LLP (Washington, D.C.) – Rome, November 2000
Study Group on Franchising. MODEL FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE LAW. COMMENTS AND PROPOSAL submitted by Mr Albrecht Schulz, CMS Hasche Sigle Eschenlohr Peltzer (Stuttgart) – Rome, December 2000
Study Group on Franchising. MODEL FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE LAW. FRENCH TEXT as revised by Mr Olivier Binder, CEJEF, Paris – Rome, December 2000
Study Group on Franchising. MODEL FRANCHISE DISCLOSURE LAW. COMMENT ON STUDY LXVIII - DOC. 25 submitted by Mr Michael Brennan, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe (Chicago) – Rome, December 2000
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXIX - Doc. 8
Study LXXII – International Interests in Mobile Equipment
Organisation of a UNIDROIT Information System or Data Base on Uniform Law. Meeting of Experts on the 1956 Geneva Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), Brussels, 26 to 27 September 2000 (Secretariat memorandum) – Rome, August 2000
Organisation of a UNIDROIT Information System or Data Base on Uniform Law. Meeting of Experts on the 1956 Geneva Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), Brussels, 26 to 27 September 2000. COMMENTS ON STUDY LXIX – DOC. 8 submitted by Ms C. Holschuh and Mr W. Czapski (IRU) – Rome, September 2000
Organisation of a UNIDROIT Information System or Data Base on Uniform Law. Meeting of Experts on the 1956 Geneva Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), Brussels, 26 to 27 September 2000. REPORT (prepared by the Secretariat) – Rome, October 2000
[in French only]
Organisation d’un Système informatisé ou d’une Base de données d’UNIDROIT sur le Droit uniforme. Réunions de M. Jacques Putzeys, Membre du Conseil de direction d’UNIDROIT et Membre du Groupe d’experts sur la CMR, à l’Institut, Rome, les 12 et 13 octobre 2000. RAPPORT (Préparé par M. Putzeys) – Rome, octobre 2000
UNIDROIT CGE / Int.Int./3-Report
Study LXXII H – International Interests in Railway Rolling Stock
ICAO Ref. LSC/ME/3-Report 
REPORT
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXXII H - Doc. 1
Study LXXII J – International Interests in Space Property

Steering and Revisions Committee for the consideration of the preliminary draft Protocol to the preliminary draft UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and a draft Protocol on Matters specific to Railway Rolling Stock. PRELIMINARY DRAFT UNIDROIT CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS IN MOBILE EQUIPMENT (as reviewed by the restricted ad hoc Drafting Group, constituted by the second Joint Session, in the light of the Joint Session’s second reading, at its meeting held in Rome from 25 to 27 November 1999). PRELIMINARY DRAFT PROTOCOL ON MATTERS SPECIFIC TO RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK (as established by a working group organised and chaired by Mr H. Rosen, expert consultant on international rail finance matters to the UNIDROIT Study Group for the preparation of uniform rules on international interests in mobile equipment, at the invitation of the President, at the conclusion of its seventh session, held in London on 19 January 2000) – Rome, February 2000
Steering and Revisions Committee (Rome, 16-17 March 2000). REPORT (prepared by the UNIDROIT Secretariat) – Rome, March 2000
Committee of Governmental Experts for the preparation of a Draft Protocol on Matters specific to Railway Rolling Stock to the Draft UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. First Joint session, Bern – 15 and 16 March 2001. DRAFT UNIDROIT CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS IN MOBILE EQUIPMENT – Rome, December 2000
Committee of Governmental Experts for the preparation of a Draft Protocol on Matters specific to Railway Rolling Stock to the Draft UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment. First Joint session, Bern – 15 and 16 March 2001. PRELIMINARY DRAFT PROTOCOL ON MATTERS SPECIFIC TO RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK – Berne/Rome, December 2000
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXXII J - Doc. 1
Study LXXVI – Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure

Restricted informal group of Experts to identify, and engage in a preliminary discussion of the issues which merit consideration in the context of the relationship between the draft UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the preliminary draft Protocol thereto on Matters specific to Space Property and the existing body of international space law (Rome, 18/19 October 2000). REPORT (prepared by the UNIDROIT Secretariat) – Rome, December 2000
Space Working Group (Rome, 19/20 October 2000). REPORT (prepared by the UNIDROIT Secretariat) – Rome, December 2000
UNIDROIT 2000 - Study LXXVI - Doc. 2

Joint American Law Institute / UNIDROIT Working Group on Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure. PRELIMINARY DRAFT RULES AND COMMENTS prepared by Professors G. Hazard, Jr. and M. Taruffo – Rome, March 2000
Joint American Law Institute / UNIDROIT Working Group on Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure. Preliminary Draft Rules prepared by Professors G. Hazard, Jr. and M. Taruffo – Rome, March 2000