UNIDROIT Work Programme 2020 - 2022

 

 

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

 

Private art collections*

 

 

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 *.