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3rd November 2011

UNIDROIT Celebrates 10th Anniversary of the Cape Town Convention

UNIDROIT is hosting a seminar to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the adoption of the Cape Town Convention in Rome on 30th November 2011.

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22nd September 2011

Election of Management Committee

At the Annual General Meeting on 22nd September 2011, Howard Rosen, Konrad Schott and Martin Fleetwood were re-elected as respectively Chairman, Vice Chairman and Secretary of the Rail Working Group.

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21st April 2011

SITA selected as preferred bidder to operate the International Rail Registry

UNIDROIT and OTIF announced yesterday in a joint statement that SITA NV had been selected as the preferred bidder to enter into contract negotiations for the design, establishment and operation of the future International Registry operating under the Luxembourg Rail Protocol.

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13th April 2011

RWG to participate in Africa Rail 2011 in Johannesburg

The Rail Working Group will take an active part in the Africa Rail 2011 Conference taking place between 27th June and 1st July in Johannesburg.

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7th March 2011

Key Basel law firm joins the RWG

ThomannFischer is a long-established law firm in Basel which was founded in 1998.

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17th February 2011

Mexican law firm joins the RWG

The Santa Fé-based firmof Abogados Sierra y Vazquez has joined the RWG.

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4th January 2011

Asia Pacific Rail 2011

Rail Working Group to present at the Asia Pacific Rail Conference in Hong Kong next March.

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17th November 2010

RWG to present at the Leaders in Rail Conference in Abu Dhabi

RWG Chairman Howard Rosen will be moderating panels and speaking at the Leaders in Rail Conference taking place on 28th November 2010 in Abu Dhabi.

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21st October 2010

Viet Transport 2010 Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam

RWG Chairman, Howard Rosen, will be speaking at and moderating part of this conference.

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27th August 2010

Zolfo Cooper joins the RWG

Zolfo Cooper has joined the

RWG. Zolfo Cooper is the world's pre-eminent advisory and interim management firm, providing restructuring leadership to companies and their stakeholders. Zolfo Cooper has operations in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.

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7th July 2010

Unidroit/OTIF publishes RFP for the Luxembourg Registry

Unidroit and OTIF, as the joint sponsoring organizations for the Luxembourg Rail Protocol, have now issued the definitive request for proposals for the operation of the registry required under the Luxembourg Protocol.

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18th June 2010

RWG participates in Africa Rail 2010

RWG Chairman Howard Rosen and Secretary Martin Fleetwood were both at the Africa Rail 2010 conference which took place in Johannesburg at the beginning of June.

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18th June 2010

Why Luxembourg makes sense for state owned Operators

The RWG has today published a note on “Why state owned Operators"..

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4th March 2010

RWG Publishes two new Briefing Papers

The RWG has now published two new papers.

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4th March 2010

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin joins the RWG

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin has become a new member of the RWG.

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24th February 2010

RWG publishes paper on the unique identification of Rolling Stock

The RWG has today published its working paper entitled Allocation and Marking of Permanent Numbers on Rolling Stock.

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19th January 2010

Information Session for Potential Bidders to be the Registrar of the International Rail Registry

A one-day Information session will be held at the Unidroit headquarters in Rome on 25th February 2010 for all interested potential bidders.

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Documentation Articles

Articles/Reports

Protecting rail assets in emerging markets: The Luxembourg protocol by Rafael Castillo-Triana
published in the Journal of Equipment Leasing Finance Spring 2010 edition
Copyright © 2010 by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation – ISSN 0740-008X.

Putting trains back on track

By Howard Rosen published in the africainvestor September – October 2008

Das Luxemburger Eisenbahnprotokoll

Zum Protokoll zum Übereinkommen über internationale Sicherungsrechte an beweglicher Ausrüstung betreffend Besonderheiten des rollenden Eisenbahnmaterials vom 23.02.2007

By Dr. Hans-Georg Bollweg, Berlin
und Prof. em. Dr. Karl Kreuzer, Würzburg
IPRax 2008, S. 176-187

The Luxembourg Rail Protocol:
A Major Advance for the Railway Industry
By Howard Rosen, published in the Uniform Law Review 2007.

Reconciling the Luxembourg Rail Protocol with the Public Interest

Presentation by Howard Rosen to the Committee for International Transport “Berner Tage”
29th November 2007

Protokoll von Luxemburg stellt Rollmaterialfinanzierung auf neue Grundlage
Benjamin von Bodungen and Dr. Konrad Schott
Eisenbahn Revue International, October 2007

Will trams soon be getting the Luxembourg effect?

By Martin J. Fleetwood, October 2007

All tracks lead to Luxembourg: the Luxembourg Rail Protocol

By Martin J. Fleetwood

Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, June 2007

On the Right Track

By Howard Rosen, published in Leasing World, April 2007

The Last Word
International Rail Journal, April 2007

An Overview of the Draft Rail Protocol
Briefing paper by Howard Rosen circulated in preparation for the Diplomatic Conference on the Rail Protocol, February 2007, in Luxembourg.

AfricaRail Symposium Lomé November 2006
Summary Report (engl.) Rapport de synthèse (fr.)

The Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention - is this the way to rail investment?
By Alexander Hewitt, a member of the rail team at Denton Wilde Sapte LLP. A version of this article first appeared in the October 2006 issue of Rail Professional

Building a Railway to the Future – Progress on the Draft UNIDROIT / OTIF Rail Protocol
By Howard Rosen, published in the Uniform Law Review 2001.

Creating an international security structure for railway rolling stock: an idea ahead of its time?
By Howard Rosen, published in the Uniform Law Review 1999