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SELECTION OF AGENDA TOPICS FOR SEVENTH INTER-AMERICAN SPECIALIZED CONFERENCES ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW (CIDIP-VII)--Preliminary Background and Guidelines--October 16, 2003(Document prepared by the Department of International Law - Secretariat for Legal Affairs (SLA))III. Topics: CIDIP-I through VITo date, six CIDIP Conferences have been held in various cities throughout the Americas and have produced 26 Inter-American instruments.CIDIP-I, held in Panama City, Panama in 1975, adopted the six conventions in the following topics of international procedural law and international commercial law: 1) Conflicts of laws concerning bills of exchange, promissory notes, and invoices; 2) Conflicts of laws concerning checks; 3) International commercial arbitration; 4) Letters rogatory; 5) Taking of evidence abroad; and 6) Powers of attorney used abroad.[2]CIDIP-II, held in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1979, adopted eight international instruments in the following topics of international procedural law, international commercial law, and general aspects of private international law: 1) Conflicts of laws concerning checks; 2) Conflicts of laws concerning commercial companies; 3) Extraterritorial validity of foreign judgments and arbitral awards; 4) Execution of preventive measures; 5) Proof and information on foreign law; 6) Domicile of natural persons in private international law; 7) General rules of private international law; and 8) Letters rogatory.[3]CIDIP-III, held in La Paz, Bolivia in 1984, adopted four international instruments in the following topics of international civil law and international procedural law: 1) Conflicts of laws concerning the adoption of minors; 2) Personality and capacity of juridical persons in private international law; 3) Extraterritorial validity of foreign judgments; and 4) Taking of evidence abroad.[4]CIDIP-IV, held in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1989 adopted three international instruments in the following topics of private international law: 1) International return of children; 2) Support obligations; and 3) Contracts for the international carriage of goods by road.[5]CIDIP-V, held in Mexico City in 1994 adopted two international instruments in the following topics of private international law: 1) Law applicable to international contracts; and 2) International traffic in minors.[6]CIDIP-VI, held at OAS headquarters in Washington DC in 2002, adopted the three international instruments in the following private international law topics: 1) Harmonization of secured transactions law; and 2) Uniform bill of landing for the international carriage of good by the road; and 3) Uniform non-negotiable bill of landing for the international carriage of good by the road.[7][2] Full texts and summaries of the six Inter-American Conventions adopted at CIDIP-I may be consulted on the internet web page of the Department of International Law, at the following address: <www.oas.org/dil/CIDIPI_home.htm>.[3] Full texts and summaries of the eight Inter-American instruments adopted at CIDIP-II may be consulted on the internet web page of the Department of International Law, at the following address: <www.oas.org/dil/CIDIPII_home.htm>.[4] Full texts and summaries of the four Inter-American instruments adopted at CIDIP-III may be consulted on the internet web page of the Department of International Law, at the following address: <www.oas.org/dil/CIDIPIII_home.htm>.[5] Full texts and summaries of the three Inter-American Conventions adopted at CIDIP-IV may be consulted on the internet web page of the Department of International Law, at the following address: <www.oas.org/dil/CIDIPIV_home.htm>.[6] Full texts and summaries of the two Inter-American Conventions adopted at CIDIP-V may be consulted on the internet web page of the Department of International Law, at the following address: <www.oas.org/dil/CIDIPIV_home.htm>.[7] Full texts and summaries of the three Inter-American instruments adopted at CIDIP-VI may be consulted on the internet web page of the Department of International Law, at the following address: <www.oas.org/dil/CIDIPVI_home.htm>. |
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