From 3-4 March Legal Officer William Brydie-Watson represented the UNIDROIT Secretariat at an APEC Workshop organised under the Strengthening Economic and Legal Infrastructure (SELI) group of the APEC Economic Committee. UNIDROIT attended as a Guest Organisation of APEC, a status granted to UNIDROIT in 2017 
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Consulting Company Oxera, in a recent study conducted for the Rail Working Group assessing the direct microeconomic benefits from the Luxembourg Rail Protocol, predicts that the Rail Protocol will save € 19.4bn for a group of 20 countries in Europe.   -> Full Press Release -> Full 
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On 31 January 2018 the Republic of Uzbekistan’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 was deposited with UNIDROIT. The Republic 
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On 23 and 24 January 2018, UNIDROIT participated in the International Training Seminar on Reduction of Shadow Economy Related to Illegal Turnover of Cultural Objects, organised by the Latvian School of Public Administration, in cooperation with the Italian Carabinieri TPC, INTERPOL, UNESCO, UNODC, UNIDROIT and other institutions, in Riga, Latvia. 
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On 16-17 January 2018, UNIDROIT participated in the 5th PRICL Workshop in Vienna, with the main focus on this occasion being to ensure consistency with and provide interpretation of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, particularly on the Rules concerning Remedies. The next Workshop 
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The Swedish Government has taken a decision to refer a proposal ”Better opportunities for financing railway rolling stock” to the Council on Legislation. The Government proposes that Sweden should become a party of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol and that necessary legal amendments should be adopted. 
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An intragovernmental working group has been set up by the Ministry of Justice of Hungary to join the Cape Town Convention. The Ministry of Justice has now established an intra-governmental Working Party on the Cape Town Convention. Dr. Zoltán Nemessányi, Deputy State Secretary for Cooperation 
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The instrument of accession to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention was deposited by South Africa with the Italian Government, Depositary of the Convention, on 9 January 2018 and the Convention will enter into force for South Africa on 1 July 2018.   Further details about the 
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On 17-20 December 2017, Ms Marina Schneider, UNIDROIT Senior Legal Officer, actively participated in the workshop “Countering illicit trafficking of cultural property” jointly organised by UNESCO and the Italian Carabinieri in Amman, Jordan.   On that occasion, Ms Schneider discussed the accession procedure to the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen 
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  Ms Marina Schneider, UNIDROIT Senior Legal Officer, took part in the UNESCO Workshop on the Fight against Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property (Convention of 1970), held at Cairo from 10 to 14 December 2017, for Egypt and Sudan. In her address, Ms Schneider considered the benefits for the Arab Region 
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