UNIDROIT AND COVID-19

In the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant economic crisis, a number of leading UNIDROIT instruments may be of interest to a wide array of actors currently facing serious challenges to address contractual disruptions and to rebuild the economy in the post COVID-19 scenario.

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On this World Environment Day and for Generation Restoration 2021, UNIDROIT highlights its efforts to develop international private law instruments which take environmental objectives into account. 

On 3^rd June 2021, the European Transport Council issued its Conclusions on "Putting Rail at the Forefront of Smart and Sustainable Mobility", as the outcome of a dedicated meeting linked to the European Year of Rail.

On 20 May 2021, UNIDROIT participated in the regional webinar “Trafficking in Cultural Property: The Business of Organised Crime”, organised by the Justice Systems Cooperation Component of the EL PAcCTO programme (Europe Latin America Programme of Assistance against Transnational Organised Crime).

Due diligence of all actors on the art market is key to fight illicit traffic. The 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects gives criteria for the determination of due diligence in acquiring a cultural object, one of which being the consultation of a database of stolen objects.

On the occasion of the International Museum Day 2021, and after the reopening of the National Museum of Somalia on 1 July 2020 after being closed for almost 30 years due to civil war and conflict, UNIDROIT was invited to celebrate with the Somali authorities and participate in a hybrid National workshop on the protection of cultural property in Somalia, organised by the Somali Academy of Science and Arts (SOMASA) together with UNESCO and in partnership with the African Union, UNIDROIT and ICOM.

On 13 May 2021, the Chargé d’affaires of the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in Italy, Mr Ermek Isakov, visited UNIDROIT to deposit Kyrgyzstan’s instrument of accession to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and to the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters specific to Aircraft Equipment.

On 7 May 2021, Deputy Secretary-General Anna Veneziano was invited to deliver a lecture on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (UPICC) in the 9th Edition of the Business and Company Law Masters of LUISS University (Rome), coordinated by Professor Barbara De Donno.