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▪ Working Groups [Discussion Forum]

Having selected consumer protection and electronic registries as the topics for CIDIP-VII, Member States then designated Official Governmental Experts to participate in the preparatory work for drafting international instruments on these topics adopted by CIDIP-VII.

Experts designated by their respective countries have the authority to participate and negotiate draft texts pursuant to their government’s substantive and political directions.

Each Member State was requested to designate at least one Government Expert for each CIDIP-VII topic. These experts should have substantive experience working with the selected topics and preferably have governmental authority for negotiating and implementing a draft convention or other instrument on the subject.

Member States were encouraged to designate private law experts, as well as officials from the domestic agencies/offices with governmental authority over the selected subjects -- officials from local consumer protection agencies and officials from local commercial registries.

In addition to governmental experts, the General Assembly also requested the Inter-American Juridical Committee to contribute to the preparatory work for CIDIP-VII and request the General Secretariat to explore means of collaboration with international organizations with expertise on the topics. This includes the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), and the Inter-American Development Bank, among others, involved in the process of drafting and promoting international instruments compatible with those developed in the CIDIP process.

The Groups of Experts, which can be conformed of both governmental and non-governmental experts, will conduct preparatory work in close consultation with one another, as well as independent experts, international organizations, and representatives from the member state through the discussion forum and will meet in preparatory meetings if necessary.

Work Methodology:

CP/CAJP-2309/05