Implementation of the COTIF and European law that has an impact . COTIF UR CIM, Appendix B to. COTIF. General Terms and. The Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail is an intergovernmental COTIF was modified by a Protocol that was signed in Vilnius on 3 June These systems of law have been in existence for decades and are known as the CIV (for passengers) and CIM (for freight/goods) Uniform Rules. A /, 24 Aug , CIM list of railway lines (Article 24 ยง 2 of COTIF , published ), Circular A /, 03 Aug , CIM.
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The Secretary General shall be the Depositary of this Convention.
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When such proposals are submitted to the Committee of Technical Experts, one-third of the States represented on the Committee may require these proposals to be submitted to the General Assembly for decision. The maritime and inland waterway services referred to in Article 1 of the CIV Uniform Rules and of the CIM Uniform Rules, on which carriage is performed in addition to carriage by rail subject to a single contract of carriage, shall be included in two lists: Article 4 Taking on and transfer of attributions 1.
The Administrative Committee shall determine the attributions of the Organisation concerning a. The Committee may, within the limits of its own responsibilities, instruct the Chairman to carry out certain specific tasks.
The Committees shall elect for each meeting or for an agreed period a Chairman and one or several Deputy Chairmen. Cltif examination consisted of a general analysis of the accounting methods and the checking of the accounting records and other evidence which I judged necessary in the circumstances.
Article 8 National law 1. The Secretary General shall be elected by the General Assembly for a period of three years, renewable twice at most.
He shall inform the Member States of these notifications. The Auditor shall audit the accounts of the Organisation, including all the trust funds and special accounts, cootif he considers necessary in order to ensure:.
Articles 29 to 32 shall apply to the composition of the Arbitration Tribunal and the arbitration procedure. To that end, each Member State undertakes, to the extent possible, to a. Modifications decided upon by the RID Expert Committee or by the Committee of Technical Experts shall enter into force for all Member States on the cltif day of the sixth month following that during which the Secretary General has given notice of them to the Member States. The Secretary General shall notify the Member States of that suspension; it shall come to an end on the expiration of a month from the day on which the Secretary General notified cotfi other Member States of the withdrawal of opposition.
Article 17 Revision Committee 1.
The Convention shall be expressed in the English, French and German languages. The functioning of the Organisation shall be ensured by the following organs: The Organisation may, with the approval of the Administrative Committee, take on administrative functions related to its aim and which are entrusted to it by a Member State.
When interpreting and applying the Convention, its character of international law and the necessity to promote uniformity shall be taken into account.
Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail
A Member State may request, without denouncing the Convention, a suspension of its membership of the Organisation, when international rail traffic is no longer carried out on its territory for reasons not attributable to that Member State.
Where the Auditor has carried out a summary audit or has not obtained adequate supporting documents, he must mention the fact in his certificate and his report, specifying the reasons for his observations as well as the consequences which result therefrom for the financial position and the posted financial transactions. Unless it decides otherwise, the Committee shall meet at the headquarters of the Organisation.
The headquarters of the Organisation shall be at Berne. The Auditor shall audit the accounts of the Organisation, including all the trust funds and special accounts, as he considers necessary in order to ensure: The General Assembly may introduce other working languages. The value in Special Drawing Rights of the national currency of a Member State which is a member of the International Monetary Fund shall be calculated in accordance with the method applied by the International Monetary Fund for its own operations and transactions.
The Member States agree to adopt all appropriate measures in order to facilitate and accelerate international rail traffic.
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The Committee shall take its decisions by the majority of the members represented at the time of vote. On a proposal of one of the States concerned, the Organisation shall publish an official translation of the Convention cmi other languages, in so far as one of these languages is cptif official language on the territory of at least two Member States.
The aim of the Organisation shall be to promote, improve and facilitate, in all respects, international traffic by rail, in particular by.
The Arbitration Tribunal’s award shall become enforceable in each of the Member States on completion of the formalities required in the State where enforcement is to take place. The Secretary General shall convene the Committees either on his own initiative or at the request of five Member States or of the Administrative Committee.
The Secretary General shall, without delay, give notice of it to the other Member States. The request must be lodged with the Secretary General at least three months before a session of the Committee.
The communications for which the Secretary General is responsible under the Convention may, if necessary, be made in the form of a publication in the Cotf.
Modifications of the Convention, decided upon by the Committees, shall be notified to the Member States by the Secretary General. Article 34 Decisions of the General Assembly 1.
In the absence of provisions in the Convention, national law shall apply. Views Read Edit View history. The agreement to refer to arbitration must be communicated to cohif Secretary General who shall act as Registrar. The General Assembly may decide to locate it at another place in one of the Member States.
An Associate Member may not be designated as a member of ccim Administrative Committee. The conversion shall be made in accordance with the value of the corresponding currency on the day of the judicial decision or on the day agreed between the parties. To that end, each Member State undertakes, to the extent possible, to. Transport and communication Air transport Road transport Rail transport Maritime transport Postal and other communications Telecommunication.