Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol – Subsequent declarations – Côte d’Ivoire

On 12 June 2019, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire notified UNIDROIT of subsequent declarations under Articles 39(1)(a), 40, 52, 53 and 54(2) of the Convention and under Articles XXIX, XXX(1), XXX(2) and XXX(3) of the Aircraft Protocol. These subsequent declarations will take effect on 1 January 2020.

On 6 and 7 June 2019, UNIDROIT co-organised with the University of Gdańsk and the University of Opole two international conferences in Gdansk (Poland) to promote the accession of Poland to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects and to discuss private art collections. 

As part of the finalization of the future UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts (ALIC), the ALIC Zero Draft is submitted to extended consultations to raise awareness and to seek further inputs from stakeholders.

See the UNIDROIT online consultation webpage and participate in the consultation.

On 14 May 2019, the Luxembourg Rail Protocol was presented in the context of an exclusive Rail Working Group briefing in Spanish in the Madrid offices of Watson Farley & Williams.

The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2016, translated by Mr Zhang Yuqing, Beijing Zhang Yuqing Law Firm (Beijing, P.R. China), former member of the UNIDROIT Governing Council, have just been published by China Commerce and Trade Press in a bilingual Chinese-English edition.

On 13 May UNIDROIT partnered with the Catedra de Estudios Juridicos Iberoamericanos to deliver a seminar on “UNIDROIT and the Codification of International Private Law”.

On 10 May 2019, as a conclusive event to the 98th session of the UNIDROIT Governing Council, members of the Working Group on the Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law Project presented on the finalised PRICL rules and comments.

The 98th session of the UNIDROIT Governing Council, the first under Secretary-General Ignacio Tirado’s tenure,  took place in Rome from 8 to 10 May 2019.