UNIDROIT Work Programme for the triennial period 2020 - 2022
(adopted by the UNIDROIT General Assembly at its 78th session – 12 December 2019)
A. Legislative activities
1. Secured transactions
(a) Implementation of Rail and Space Protocols ***
(b) Implementation of the MAC Protocol ***
(c) Preparation of other Protocols to the Cape Town Convention
(i) Ships and maritime transport equipment *
(ii) Renewable energy equipment *
(d) Model Law on Warehouse Receipts ***
2. Private law and agricultural development
(a) Preparation of an international guidance document on agricultural land
investment contracts ***
(b) Legal structure of agricultural enterprises **
3. Transnational principles of civil procedure
(a) Formulation of regional rules ***
(b) Best Practices for Effective Enforcement ***
(c) International Civil Procedure in Latin America*
4. International Sales Law
Preparation of a guidance document on existing texts in the area of
international sales law in cooperation with UNCITRAL and the Hague
Conference on Private International Law ***
5. International Commercial Contracts
Formulation of principles of reinsurance contracts *
6. Cultural Property
7. Leasing and Factoring
(a) Model Law on Factoring ***
(b) Guide for enactment of the Unidroit Model Law on Leasing*
8. Insolvency Law
The harmonisation of national insolvency laws for the liquidation of banks and rules of cooperation and coordination in cross border cases **
9. Digital Assets and Private Law ***
Artificial Intelligence/Smart Contracts/Distributed Ledger Technology**
B. Implementation and promotion of UNIDROIT instruments
1. Depositary functions ***
2. Promotion of UNIDROIT instruments ***
(a) UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts
(b) UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming
(c) UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects and
UNESCO-UNIDROIT Model Provisions on State ownership of undiscovered
cultural objects
(d) UNIDROIT instruments on capital markets
C. Non-legislative activities
1. UNIDROIT Library and Depository Libraries ***
2. Publications ***
3. Internships and scholarships ***
The level of priority assigned to the projects is as follows : high *** – medium ** – low *.