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28th May 2009

 

Rail Finance Workshop in Johannesburg

 

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1st Apil 2009

 

Mason Hayes+Curran joins the RWG

 

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10th March 2009

 

K&L Gates LLP joins the RWG

 

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18th November 2008

 

Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) joins RWG

 

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28th October 2008

Luxembourg Rail Protocol in Vietnam

 

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24th September 2008

Fromer, Schultheiss & Staehelin joins the RWG

 

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9th September 2008

RWG's new structure

 

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1st September 2008

UNIFE study expects continued strong growth in the rail sector to 2016

 

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29th August 2008

Official commentary on the Cape Town Convention and the Luxembourg Rail Protocol published

 

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30th July 2008

Bowman Gilfillan joins the RWG

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28th July 2008

Appointment of Chairman of the Emerging Markets Task Force

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28th May 2008

The RWG sets up Emerging Markets Task Force

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16th May 2008

Simmons & Simmons joins the RWG

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2nd May 2008

EU issues new guidelines on state aid for railway undertakings

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25th April 2008

A new member in Denmark

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26th March 2008

Luxembourg Rail Protocol presented at CER Conference in Warsaw

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19th February 2008

UIC legal workshop discusses the Luxembourg Protocol

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11th January 2008

The Rail Working Group is proud to announce that law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP has joined the Group.

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The Rail Working Group (RWG) is a not-for-profit group established at the request of UNIDROIT to represent the position of the rail industry relating to adoption and implementation of the 2007 Luxembourg Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on matters relating to railway rolling stock (the Luxembourg Rail Protocol).

 


 

The RWG

 

• actively participates in the preparation for the implementation of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol and acts as an interface with UNIDROIT, OTIF and the Luxembourg government in connection therewith


• participates in seminars and generally promotes the signature and ratification of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol;


• issues publications and position papers relating to the Protocol;


• and acts as a forum for consideration of the practical aspects of the operation of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol by the rail industry.


Our key tasks is to ensure that the Luxembourg Rail Protocol is brought into force in as many countries as possible as quickly as possible but ensuring that the operation of the Protocol does not lose touch with the commercial realities of the rail industry.

The RWG was represented at the Cape Town Convention of 2001, having been actively involved in the framing of the Convention, which was signed on 16th November, 2001. It also was prominently involved in the drafting and negotiations surrounding the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Convention, had observer status at the Luxembourg Diplomatic Conference of February 2007 which adopted the Luxembourg Rail Protocol and is a member of the Preparatory Commission established by that Diplomatic Conference.