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The CRTD Convention was prepared by the
International Institute for the Unification of Private
Law (UNIDROIT) and adopted by the Inland Transport Committee
of the Economic Commission for Europe at its fifty-first
session, held in Geneva, from 2 to 10 October 1989. |
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The CRTD was opened for signature on 1 February
1990. |
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Germany and Morocco have signed the Convention.
Liberia deposited its instruments of accession to the
CRTD. |
4. |
At the request of the Inland Transport Committee,
the secretariat sent a questionnaire (English, French, Russian)
to all heads of delegations to the Committee with a view
to identifying what difficulties would prevent accession
to the CRTD. |
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Several delegations replied to the questionnaire. |
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At its seventy-first session (Geneva, 5-9 November 2001), the Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, having considered the conclusions of the ad hoc group of experts on the basis of the questionnaire on the CRTD Convention, recommends to the Inland Transport Committee to establish an ad hoc meeting of experts on the CRTD, which would meet twice in 2002 and twice in 2003, with the following mandate: |
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to consult experts from all sectors concerned
by the CRTD (e.g. legal experts on liability, insurance
industry, consignors, carriers) in order to determine
how to eliminate the obstacles -such as those related
to the limit of liability and compulsory insurance- to
the entry into force of the CRTD; |
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(b) |
to propose, on the basis of these consultations and
of proposals by Governments, modifications to the existing
articles of the CRTD which would provide a better basis
for application of the CRTD to the various modes of transport; |
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(c) |
to report to the Inland Transport Committee at its 2003
session on progress made and difficulties encountered; |
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(d) |
to submit to the Inland Transport Committee a reviewed
text of the CRTD incorporating the modifications mentioned
above for possible adoption as a new convention at its
2004 session. |
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