YEARBOOK Volume XLI: 2010 - United Nations
UNCITRAL UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW YEARBOOK Volume XLI: 2010 UNITED NATIONS
UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW YEARBOOK Volume XLI: 2010 UNITED NATIONS New York, 2013
NOTE Symbols of United Nations documents are composed of capital letters combined with figures. Mention of such a symbol indicates a reference to a United Nations document. The footnote numbering follows that used in the original documents on which this Yearbook is based. Any footnotes added subsequently are indicated by lower-case letters. Changes of and additions to wording that appeared in earlier drafts of conventions, model laws and other legal texts are in italics, except in the case of headings to articles, which are in italics as a matter of style. A/CN.9/SER.A/2010 UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION Sales No. E.13.V.8 ISBN 978-92-1-133815-7 ISSN 0251-4265 United Nations, 1RYHPEHU 2013. All rights reserved, worldwide. Publishing production: English, Publishing and Library Section, United Nations Office at Vienna.
iii CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Part One. Report of the Commission on its annual session and comments and action thereon THE FORTY-THIRD SESSION (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. B. C. D. 9 Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on its forty-third session (New York, 21 June-9 July 2010) (A/65/17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD): extract from the report of the Trade and Development Board on its fifty-seventh session (TD/B/57/8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 General Assembly: Report of the Sixth Committee on the report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its forty-third session (A/65/465) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 General Assembly resolutions 65/21, 65/22, 65/23, 65/24 and 65/32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Part Two. Studies and reports on specific subjects I. ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. 149 Report of the Working Group on Arbitration and Conciliation on the work of its fifty-first session (Vienna, 14-18 September 2009) (A/CN.9/684) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Note by the Secretariat on settlement of commercial disputes: Revision of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, submitted to the Working Group on Arbitration and Conciliation at its fifty-first session (A/CN.9/WG.II/WP.154/Add.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Report of the Working Group on Arbitration and Conciliation on the work of its fifty-second session (New York, 1-5 February 2010) (A/CN.9/688) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Note by the Secretariat on settlement of commercial disputes: Revision of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, submitted to the Working Group on Arbitration and Conciliation at its fifty-second session (A/CN.9/WG.II/WP.157 and Add.1-2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 II. SECURITY INTERESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 B. C. D. A. B. C. D. Report of the Working Group on Security Interests on the work of its sixteenth session (Vienna, 2-6 November 2009) (A/CN.9/685) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Note by the Secretariat on the Draft Supplement to the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions dealing with security rights in intellectual property, submitted to the Working Group on Security Interests at its sixteenth session (A/CN.9/WG.VI/WP.39 and Add.1-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Note by the Secretariat on the Draft Supplement to the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions dealing with security rights in intellectual property, Proposal by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, submitted to the Working Group on Security Interests at its sixteenth session (A/CN.9/WG.VI/WP.40) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Report of the Working Group on Security Interests on the work of its seventeenth session (New York, 8-12 February 2010) (A/CN.9/689) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 iii
E. Note by the Secretariat on the Draft Supplement to the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions dealing with security rights in intellectual property, submitted to the Working Group on Security Interests at its seventeenth session (A/CN.9/WG.VI/WP.42 and Add.1-7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 III. INSOLVENCY LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 A. Report of the Working Group on Insolvency Law on the work of its thirty-seventh session (Vienna, 9-13 November 2009) (A/CN.9/686) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531 Note by the Secretariat on the treatment of enterprise groups in insolvency, submitted to the Working Group on Insolvency Law at its thirty-seventh session (A/CN.9/WG.V/WP.90 and Add.1-2) . . . . . . . . 552 Report of the Working Group on Insolvency Law on the work of its thirty-eighth session (New York, 19-23 April 2010) (A/CN.9/691) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 Note by the Secretariat on the treatment of enterprise groups in insolvency, submitted to the Working Group on Insolvency Law at its thirty-eighth session (A/CN.9/WG.V/WP.92 and Add.1-2) . . . . . . . . . 655 Note by the Secretariat on possible future work on insolvency law, submitted to the Working Group on Insolvency Law at its thirty-eighth session (A/CN.9/WG.V/WP.93 and Add.1-6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750 IV. PROCUREMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791 B. C. D. E. A. Report of the Working Group on Procurement on the work of its seventeenth session (Vienna, 7-11 December 2009) (A/CN.9/687) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791 Note by the Secretariat on possible revisions to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services - a revised text of the Model Law, submitted to the Working Group on Procurement at its seventeenth session (A/CN.9/WG.I/WP.71 and Add.1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826 Report of the Working Group on Procurement on the work of its eighteenth session (New York, 12-16 April 2010) (A/CN.9/690) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919 Note by the Secretariat on possible revisions to the UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and Services - a revised text of the Model Law, submitted to the Working Group on Procurement at its eighteenth session (A/CN.9/WG.I/WP.73 and Add.1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953 V. POSSIBLE FUTURE WORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051 B. C. D. A. Present and possible future work on electronic commerce (A/CN.9/692) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051 B. Possible future work on security interests (A/CN.9/702 and Add.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067 C. Possible future work on online dispute resolution in cross-border electronic commerce transactions (A/CN.9/706) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097 Possible future work on insolvency law — Further proposal by the delegation of Switzerland for preparation by the UNCITRAL Secretariat of a study of the feasibility and possible scope of an instrument regarding the cross border resolution of large and complex financial institutions (A/CN.9/709) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113 Possible future work on online dispute resolution in cross-border electronic commerce transactions — Note supporting the possible future work on online dispute resolution by UNCITRAL, submitted by the Institute of International Commercial Law (A/CN.9/710) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116 VI. CASE LAW ON UNCITRAL TEXTS (CLOUT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1123 D. E. iv
v VII. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO LAW REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1125 Note by the Secretariat on technical cooperation and assistance (A/CN.9/695 and Add.1) . . . . . . . . . . 1125 VIII. STATUS AND PROMOTION OF UNCITRAL LEGAL TEXTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149 Status of conventions and model laws (A/CN.9/694) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1149 IX. COORDINATION AND COOPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179 Note by the Secretariat on current activities of international organizations related to the harmonization and unification of international trade law (A/CN.9/707 and Add.1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1179 Part Three. Annexes I. SUMMARY RECORDS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207 II. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT WRITINGS RELATED TO THE WORK OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW — NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT (A/CN.9/693) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1339 III. CHECK-LIST OF DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1383 IV. LIST OF DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW REPRODUCED IN PREVIOUS VOLUMES OF THE YEARBOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1391 v
INTRODUCTION This is the forty-first volume in the series of Yearbooks of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).1 The present volume consists of three parts. Part one contains the Commission’s report on the work of its forty-third session, which was held in New York, from 21 June-9 July 2010, and the action thereon by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and by the General Assembly. In part two, most of the documents considered at the forty-third session of the Commission are reproduced. These documents include reports of the Commission’s Working Groups as well as studies, reports and notes by the Secretary-General and the Secretariat. Also included in this part are selected working papers that were prepared for the Working Groups. Part three contains summary records, the bibliography of recent writings related to the Commission’s work, a list of documents before the forty-third session and a list of documents relating to the work of the Commission reproduced in the previous volumes of the Yearbook. UNCITRAL secretariat Vienna International Centre P.O. Box 500, 1400 Vienna, Austria Telephone: ( 43-1) 26060-4060 Telefax: ( 43-1) 26060-5813 E-mail: uncitral@uncitral.org Internet: www.uncitral.org 1 To date, the following volumes of the Yearbook of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (abbreviated herein as Yearbook [year]) have been published: Volume I United Nations publication Sales No. or document symbol Years covered 1968-1970 E.71.V.1 II 1971 E.72.V.4 III 1972 E.73.V.6 III Suppl. 1972 E.73.V.9 IV 1973 E.74.V.3 V 1974 E.75.V.2 VI 1975 E.76.V.5 VII 1976 E.77.V.1 VIII 1977 E.78.V.7 IX 1978 E.80.V.8 X 1979 E.81.V.2 XI 1980 E.81.V.8 XII 1981 E.82.V.6 XIII 1982 E.84.V.5 XIV 1983 E.85.V.3 vi
vii Volume XV United Nations publication Sales No. or document symbol Years covered 1984 E.86.V.2 XVI 1985 E.87.V.4 XVII 1986 E.88.V.4 XVIII 1987 E.89.V.4 XIX 1988 E.89.V.8 XX 1989 E.90.V.9 XXI 1990 E.91.V.6 XXII 1991 E.93.V.2 XXIII 1992 E.94.V.7 XXIV 1993 E.94.V.16 XXV 1994 E.95.V.20 XXVI 1995 E.96.V.8 XXVII 1996 E.98.V.7 XXVIII 1997 E.99.V.6 XXIX 1998 E.99.V.12 XXX 1999 E.00.V.9 XXXI 2000 E.02.V.3 XXXII 2001 E.04.V.4 XXXIII 2002 E.05.V.13 XXXIV 2003 E.06.V.14 XXXV 2004 E.08.V.8 XXXVI 2005 E.10.V.4 XXXVII 2006 A/CN.9/SER.A/2006 XXXVIII 2007 A/CN.9/SER.A/2007 XXXIX 2008 A/CN.9/SER.A/2008 XL 2009 A/CN.9/SER.A/2009 vii
Part One REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON ITS ANNUAL SESSION AND COMMENTS AND ACTION THEREON
THE FORTY-THIRD SESSION (2010) A. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on its forty-third session (New York, 21 June-9 July 2010) (A/65/17) [Original: English] CONTENTS Chapter Paragraphs I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 II. Organization of the session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12 III. IV. A. Opening of the session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 B. Membership and attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 C. Election of officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D. Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 E. Establishment of a Committee of the Whole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 F. Adoption of the report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Finalization and adoption of a revised version of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules 13-191 A. Organization of deliberations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-15 B. Report of the Committee of the Whole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-186 Section I. Introductory rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-51 Section II. Composition of the arbitral tribunal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52-78 Section III. Arbitral proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79-137 Section IV. The award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138-186 C. Adoption of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules as revised in 2010 . . . . . . . . . 187 D. Possible recommendations to arbitral institutions and other interested bodies 188-189 E. Future work in the field of settlement of commercial disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . 190-191 Finalization and adoption of a draft supplement to the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions dealing with security rights in intellectual property 192-227 A. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192-194 B. Consideration of the draft supplement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195-226 C. Adoption of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions. Supplement on Security Rights in Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 11
12 Yearbook of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, 2010, vol. XLI V. Finalization and adoption of part three of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law on the treatment of enterprise groups in insolvency . . . . . . . . . . . A. 228-233 Consideration of draft part three of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228-232 Decision on adoption of part three of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 VI. Procurement: progress report of Working Group I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234-239 VII. Possible future work in the areas of electronic commerce and online dispute resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240-257 A. Possible future work in the area of electronic commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240-250 B. Possible future work in the area of online dispute resolution in cross-border electronic commerce transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251-257 VIII. Possible future work in the area of insolvency law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258-261 IX. Possible future work in the area of security interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262-273 X. Possible future work in the area of microfinance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274-280 XI. Monitoring implementation of the New York Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281-284 XII. Technical assistance to law reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285-289 Promotion of ways and means of ensuring a uniform interpretation and application of UNCITRAL legal texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290-293 XIV. Status and promotion of UNCITRAL texts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294-298 XV. Working methods of UNCITRAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299-306 XVI. Coordination and cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-312 A. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307-309 B. Reports of other international organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310-312 Role of UNCITRAL in promoting the rule of law at the national and international levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313-336 B. XIII. XVII. XVIII. XIX. A. Laws and practices of States in the domestic implementation and interpretation of UNCITRAL texts: perspectives of recipient States on the work of UNCITRAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321-328 B. Coordination and coherence of technical assistance and capacity-building in the areas of UNCITRAL work, and mechanisms and criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of such assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329-333 C. Decisions by the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334-336 International commercial arbitration moot competitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337-339 A. Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2010 . . . . . . . . . . 337-338 B. Madrid Commercial Arbitration Moot 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Relevant General Assembly resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340-342
Part One. Report of the Commission on its annual session and comments and action thereon XX. XXI. 13 Other business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343-349 A. Internship programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343-344 B. Strategic framework for the biennium 2012-2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345-347 C. Evaluation of the role of the Secretariat in facilitating the work of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348-349 Date and place of future meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350-355 A. Forty-fourth session of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 B. Sessions of working groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351-355 Annexes I. UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules (as revised in 2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. Terminology and recommendations of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions. Supplement on Security Rights in Intellectual Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III. UNCITRAL rules of procedure and methods of work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IV. List of documents before the Commission at its forty-third session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. Introduction 1. The present report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) covers the forty-third session of the Commission, held in New York from 21 June to 9 July 2010. 2. Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, this report is submitted to the Assembly and is also submitted for comments to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. II. Organization of the session A. Opening of the session 3. The forty-third session of the Commission was opened by the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, the Legal Counsel, on 21 June 2010. B. Membership and attendance 4. The General Assembly, in its resolution 2205 (XXI), established the Commission with a membership of 29 States, elected by the Assembly. By its resolution 3108 (XXVIII) of 12 December 1973, the Assembly increased the membership of the Commission from 29 to 36 States. By its resolution 57/20 of 19 November 2002, the General Assembly further increased the membership of the Commission from 36 States to 60 States. The current members of the Commission, elected on 22 May 2007, on 3 November 2009 and on 15 April 2010, are the following States, whose term of office expires on the last day prior to the beginning
14 Yearbook of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, 2010, vol. XLI of the annual session of the Commission in the year indicated:1 Algeria (2016), Argentina (2016), Armenia (2013), Australia (2016), Austria (2016), Bahrain (2013), Belarus (2011), Benin (2013), Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (2013), Botswana (2016), Brazil (2016), Bulgaria (2013), Cameroon (2013), Canada (2013), Chile (2013), China (2013), Colombia (2016), Czech Republic (2013), Egypt (2013), El Salvador (2013), Fiji (2016), France (2013), Gabon (2016), Germany (2013), Greece (2013), Honduras (2013), India (2016), Iran (Islamic Republic of) (2016), Israel (2016), Italy (2016), Japan (2013), Jordan (2016), Kenya (2016), Latvia (2013), Malaysia (2013), Malta (2013), Mauritius (2016), Mexico (2013), Morocco (2013), Namibia (2013), Nigeria (2016), Norway (2013), Pakistan (2016), Paraguay (2016), Philippines (2016), Poland (2012), Republic of Korea (2013), Russian Federation (2013), Senegal (2013), Singapore (2013), South Africa (2013), Spain (2016), Sri Lanka (2013), Thailand (2016), Turkey (2016), Uganda (2016), Ukraine (2014), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2013), United States of America (2016) and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (2016). 5. With the exception of Bahrain, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Botswana, Gabon, Latvia, Malta, Morocco, Namibia, Sri Lanka and Uganda, all the members of the Commission were represented at the session. 6. The session was attended by observers from the following States: Belgium, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Iraq, Kuwait, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Netherlands, Panama, Qatar, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, and United Arab Emirates. In addition, an observer from the Holy See attended the session. 7. The session was also attended by observers from the following international organizations: (a) United Nations system: Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat, International Monetary Fund, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Bank and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); (b) Intergovernmental organizations: Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), European Union and Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA); (c) Invited non-governmental organizations: American Arbitration Association (AAA), American Bar Association (ABA), American Bar Foundation, Arab Association for International Arbitration, Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration 1 Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 2205 (XXI), the members of the Commission are elected for a term of six years. Of the current membership, 30 were elected by the Assembly at its sixty-first session, on 22 May 2007 (decision 61/417), 28 were elected by the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, on 3 November 2009, and two were elected by the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, on 15 April 2010. By its resolution 31/99, the Assembly altered the dates of commencement and termination of membership by deciding that members would take office at the beginning of the first day of the regular annual session of the Commission immediately following their election and that their terms of office would expire on the last day prior to the opening of the seventh regular annual session following their election. The following six States members elected by the General Assembly on 3 November 2009 agreed to alternate their membership among themselves until 2016 as follows: Belarus (2010-2011, 2013-2016), Czech Republic (2010-2013, 2015-2016), Poland (2010-2012, 2014-2016), Ukraine (2010-2014), Georgia (2011-2015) and Croatia (2012-2016).
Part One. Report of the Commission on its annual session and comments and action thereon Group, Association for the Promotion of Arbitration in Africa, Association Française des Entreprises Privées, Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Center for International Legal Studies, Comité Français de l’Arbitrage, Commercial Finance Association, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group, European Communities Trade Mark Association, Independent Film and Television Alliance, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL), International Air Transport Association (IATA), International Arbitration Institute, International Association of Restructuring, International Bar Association (IBA), International Institute for Sustainable Development, International Law Institute, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, International Trademark Association, Moot Alumni Association, New York City Bar, Pace Institute of International Commercial Law, Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration - Lagos, and Queen Mary University of London, School of International Arbitration; (d) Other entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the General Assembly and maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters: Sovereign Military Order of Malta. 8. The Commission welcomed the participation of international non-governmental organizations with expertise in the major items on the agenda. Their participation was crucial for the quality of texts formulated by the Commission and the Commission requested the Secretariat to continue to invite such organizations to its sessions. C. Election of officers 9. The Commission elected the following officers: Chair: Ricardo Sandoval López (Chile) Vice-Chairs: Salim Moollan (Mauritius) Kathryn Sabo (Canada) Wisit Wisitsora-at (Thailand) Rapporteur: D. Gerard Jirair Mekjian (Armenia) Agenda 10. The agenda of the session, as adopted by the Commission, was as follows: 1. Opening of the session. 2. Election of officers. 3. Adoption of the agenda. 4. Finalization and adoption of a revised version of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. 15
16 Yearbook of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, 2010, vol. XLI E. 5. Finalization and adoption of a draft supplement to the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions dealing with security rights in intellectual property. 6. Finalization and adoption of part three of the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law on the treatment of enterprise groups in insolvency. 7. Procurement: progress report of Working Group I. 8. Possible future work in the areas of electronic commerce and online dispute resolution. 9. Possible future work in the area of insolvency law. 10. Possible future work in the area of security interests. 11. Possible future work in the area of microfinance. 12. Monitoring implementation of the 1958 New York Convention. 13. Technical assistance to law reform. 14. Promotion of ways and means of ensuring a uniform interpretation and application of UNCITRAL legal texts. 15. Status and
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