98th Session
(Rome, 8-10 May 2019)

Documents

 

 

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Provisional Order of Business (C.D. (98) Misc. 1 rev. 2)

1. Adoption of the annotated draft agenda (C.D. (98) 1 rev.)

2. Appointments (C.D. (98) 1 rev.)

(a) First and Second Vice-Presidents of the Governing Council
(b) Members ad honorem of the Governing Council
(c) Members of the Permanent Committee

3. Reports

(a) Annual Report 2018 (C.D. (98) 2)
(b) Report on the UNIDROIT Foundation

4. International Interests in Mobile Equipment

(a) Implementation and status of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol and of the Space Protocol
(C.D. (98) 3)

[Related documents:
– UNIDROIT 2018–C.D. (97) 2;
– UNIDROIT 2018–C.D. (97) 4;
– UNIDROIT 2019–C.D. (98) 2]

(b) Draft Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on Matters Specific to Mining, Agricultural
and Construction Equipment (C.D. (98) 4)

[Related documents:
– DCME-MAC – Doc. 3: Draft MAC Protocol;
– MAC Protocol Economic Assessment]

5. Private Law and Agricultural Development

(a) Preparation of an international guidance document on agricultural land investment contracts
(C.D. (98) 5(a) rev.)

[Related documents:
– UNIDROIT 2018 – C.D. (97) 19, Item No. 7(b);
– UNIDROIT 2018 – C.D. (97) 7(b);
– UNIDROIT 2017 – C.D. (96) 6(b);
– UNIDROIT 2016 – C.D. (95) 7(b) ]

(b) Follow-up activities and promotion of the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract
Farming (C.D. (98) 5(b))

[Related documents:
– UNIDROIT /FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming
– Contract Farming webpage
– Forum on Legal Aspects of Contract Farming Webpage]

6. Transnational civil procedure

(a) Formulation of ELI-UNIDROIT regional rules (C.D. (98) 6(a) rev.)

[Related documents:
– UNIDROIT 2017 – C.D. (96) 7;
– UNIDROIT 2018 – C.D. (97) 2]

(b) Principles on Effective Enforcement (C.D. (98) 6(b))

[Related documents:
– UNIDROIT 2019 – C.D. (98) 2;
– UNIDROIT 2019 – C.D. (98) 14 rev. 2]

7. International Commercial Contracts: Formulation of Principles of Reinsurance Contracts
(C.D. (98) 7)

[Related documents:
– UNIDROIT 2019 – C.D. (98) 2;
– UNIDROIT 2019 – C.D. (98) 14 rev. 2]

8. 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 (C.D. (98) 8)

[Related document: UNIDROIT 2019 – C.D. (98) 2]

9. International protection of cultural property (C.D. (98) 9)

(a) Follow-up activities and promotion of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or
Illegally Exported Cultural Objects and the Model Provisions on State Ownership
of Undiscovered Cultural Objects

(b) Private art collections

[Related document: Annual Report 2018 – C.D. (98) 2]

10. Promotion of UNIDROIT instruments (C.D. (98) 10)

[Related document: Annual Report 2018 – C.D. (98) 2]

11. Correspondents (C.D. (98) 11)

[Related document: UNIDROIT 2016 – C.D. (95) 10]

12. UNIDROIT Library and research activities (C.D. (98) 12 rev.)

[Related documents:
– Annual Report 2018 – C.D. (98) 2;
– UNIDROIT 2018 – Study LXV/Scholarships: Impl. 29]

13. UNIDROIT information resources and policy (C.D. (98) 13 rev.)

[Related documents:
– Annual Report 2018 – C.D. (98) 2;
– C.D.(92) 12;
– C.D.(93) 11;
– C.D.(94) 11;
– C.D.(95) 12;
– C.D.(96) 12;
– C.D.(97) 14]

14. Proposals for the Work Programme for the triennial period 2020 – 2022 and
comments received by the Secretariat (C.D. (98) 14 rev. 2)

[Related documents:
– Strategic Plan (UNIDROIT 2012 – A.G. (71) INF 2);
– Work Programme for the 2017-2019 triennium (UNIDROIT 2016 – A.G. (75) 3 corr.
and UNIDROIT 2016 – A.G. (75) 8));
– UNIDROIT 2016 –C.D (95) 13 rev and Addenda 123456 ]

15. Presentation of the Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol Official Commentary –
Fourth Edition (2019) by Professor Sir Roy Goode C.B.E., Q.C. and Professor
Jeffrey Wool.

16. Administrative matters

(a) Preparation of the draft Budget for the 2020 financial year (C.D. (98) 15(a))

[Related document: Draft Budget 2020 – First estimates (UNIDROIT 2019 – F.C. (86) 2)]

(b) Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the new compensation
and social security scheme applicable to the UNIDROIT staff (C.D. (98) 15(b))

[Related documents:
– F.C. (86) 5;
– A.G. (77) 8;
– C.D. (97) 15 (b)]

17. Date and venue of the 99th session of the Governing Council (C.D. (98) 1 rev.)

18. Any other business
Private Law and Development – Cooperation with the Global Forum on Law Justice and
Development (GFLJD) and possible future work in relation with the “Human-Centered
Business Model” Project (C.D. (98) 16)

19. Panel on “Principles on Reinsurance Contracts”.