RWG briefing papers

• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol – in a nutshell

• Implementation of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention current status as at 1^st July 2025

• What Equipment is covered by the Luxembourg Protocol?
• New opportunities for Rolling Stock Manufacturers
• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol – helping to build the rail infrastructure of the future
• Key Talking Points
• Enhancing the scope of Financial Services Centres
  

  • Enhancing the scope of Financial Services Centres
  • Briefing Paper
  • Slides

• The URVIS number under the Luxembourg Rail Protocol – What is it and how does it work in practice

• Advantages of URVIS digital solutions

• Why it makes sense for single/island jurisdictions
• How ECAs can support Emerging Markets and Developing Economics
• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol’s relevance for domestic transactions
• Promoting sustainable growth and combating global climate change – How the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention supports the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
• Elevator pitch
• Working towards a global common identifier for Railway Rolling Stock
• Private financing of railway equipment
• A key building block in the development agenda
• Identifying railway rolling stock – it’s time for a world-wide system
• Does the Luxembourg Rail Protocol matter to state owned rail operators?
• Allocation and Marking of Permanent Numbers on Rolling Stock
• Making a difference to the environment
• A Significant Step Forward For Rail Operators
• Constructive and Focused Aid to Developing Countries

RWG guidance and more

• Guidance notes on the adoption of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol

• Sample clauses for existing financing agreements and leases

• Declarations Matrix and economically based recommendations (Cape Town Convention and Luxembourg Rail Protocol)

• Declarations Matrix and economically based recommendations (Luxembourg Rail Protocol only)

Articles/Reports

• Luxembourg Protocol: Opportunities for the Railway System in Colombia
  English version (free translation)
  Elisa Muskus Escamilla, 20th July 2024

• Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and the railways – a new global approach
  Howard Rosen, Article No. 120 [UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°102 – Second Quarter 2024], 26th June 2024
• The real costs of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol for manufacturers 
  Howard Rosen, January 2024
• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention and the Single European Railway Area (SERA)
  Howard Rosen, January 2024
• The Luxembourg Protocol – What do you need to know?
  Watson Farley & Williams LLP, 21st November 2023
• Country Risk Classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits
  OECD, 17th July 2023
• Effective and Fair ECA support for the Railways in Africa
  The Rail Working Group, 7th November 2023
• Big changes ahead for railway rolling stock identification
  Marco Raimondi, Rail Freight, 6th March 2023
• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: Its positive impact on the cost of financing railway rolling stock in the UK
  Oxera, 30th November 2020
• Report of the Group of Experts on Permanent Identification of Railway Rolling Stock on its first session
  UN Economic Commission for Europe, 9th October 2020
• Combating global climate change: How the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention will help to battle global climate change
  Howard Rosen, September 2020
• An Introduction to the Luhn Algorithm
  Howard Rosen, 10th June 2020
• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: Its positive impact on the cost of financing railway rolling stock in Africa
  Oxera, 13th May 2020
• Financing Rolling Stock: Luxembourg Rail Protocol steams ahead
  Barbara M. Goodstein, Howard Rosen, 4th April 2020 New York Law Journal
• South African rail manufacturing sector needs to reinvent itself
  The Rail Infrastructure, Engineering news & Mining weekly, March 6-12, 2020
• Positioning Africa to deliver on Agenda 2063 and economic integration through multi-sectoral approaches to infrastructure development.
  PIDA WEEK 2019, 25th-29th November 2019, Cairo Egypt
• Private financing of rolling stock – Developments in Europe
  Roland Berger, 20th May 2019
• Draft resolution on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters specific to Railway Rolling Stock (the Luxembourg Protocol)
  United Nations, Economic and Social Council, Economic Commission for Africa, 22nd March 2019
• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol – confronting the hard questions
  Howard Rosen, 27th March 2019
• Financing railway rolling stock: a new solution for Africa
  The issues paper presented by the secretariat of the UN ECA to the Committee of Experts, March 2019
• Luxembourg Protocol can save South Africa billions – Rail Working Group
  Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor, by: Natasha Odendaal, 14th February 2019
• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol: Making The Railways Work For Africa
  Dr. Vera Songwe, Howard Rosen, Railways Africa, February 2019
• Cheaper, simpler rolling stock financing: The benefits of the Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Andrew Meaney, Oxera Consulting LLP and Howard Rosen, Rail Working Group
  Paper presented to the European Transport Conference 2018, Dublin on 11th October 2018
• A legal challenge for the Belt and Road Initiative
  Jelena Madir, Howard Rosen, Law in Transition Journal 2018
• The Luxembourg Protocol – What do you need to know? 
  Watson Farley & Williams LLP, 21st November 2023
• From the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the draft MAC Protocol
  Benjamin von Bodungen, Howard Rosen, Uniform Law Review, Volume 23, Issue 2, 1 June 2018
• Rail Working Group: Thinking forward.
  Howard Rosen, SWISSRAIL, Express Nr. 2, June 2018
• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol. An essential element of international transport by rail.
  Howard Rosen, OTIF Bulletin No. 2/2018
• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: estimated impact on rolling stock financing cost in countries using the 1520 gauge
  Oxera, 25th June 2018
• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: estimated impact on rolling stock financing cost in South Africa
  Oxera, 12th June 2018
• Interview with Howard Rosen, Chairman of the Rail Working Group at the Middle East Rail 12th – 13th March 2018, published on 1st May 2018
• Luxembourg Rail Protocol: estimated impact on rolling stock financing cost in Europe
  Oxera, February 2018
• Commentary on ‘A Comparison of the Position of Buyers under the Cape Town Convention, the Three Existing Protocols and the Draft MAC Protocol’
  Howard Rosen, Cape Town Convention Journal, 2017, Vol. 6
• A Comparison of the Position of Buyers under the Cape Town Convention, the Three Existing Protocols and the Draft MAC Protocol
  Louise Gullifer, Cape Town Convention Journal, 2017, Vol. 6
• Why a new international treaty may make it easier for heritage railways to operate and prosper in the future
  Howard Rosen, SA Rail, Vol. 55 No. 3 2017
• Financing Rolling Stock; Luxembourg Rail Protocol Steams Ahead
  Barbara M. Goodstein and Howard Rosen, New York Law Journal, 5th April 2017
• Private financing of rolling stock. Market analysis for Western and Eastern Europe
  Roland Berger, 29th March 2017
• Comparative analysis of aircraft, rail and space international registries and their regulatory provisions
  Rory McPhillips, Howard Rosen, Souichirou Kozuka & Stuart Kennedy
  5 Cape Town Convention Journal, 7th February 2017
• Commentary on ‘Comparative analysis of aircraft, rail and space international registries and their regulatory provisions’
  F. Scott Wilson, 5 Cape Town Convention Journal, 22nd November 2016
• Enquiry on the Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Swedish Ministry of Justice, 20th June 2016
• An African case for the Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Grindrod, 18th March 2016
• UK signed Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Railway Pro, 11th March 2016
• The Luxembourg Protocol – turning vision into reality
  Howard Rosen, International Railway Journal, 8th March 2016
• Rail Industry welcomes UK Signature of the Luxembourg Protocol
  GroupSpaces, 26th February 2016
• Rail Industry welcomes UK Signature of the Luxembourg Protocol
  facebook, 26th February 2016
• Luxembourg Protocol will reshape rolling stock funding
  Rail Gazette, 29th January 2016
• European governments still fund 88% of rolling stock procurement
  David Briginshaw, International Railway Journal, 27th January 2016
• Private Financing of rolling stock. Market analysis for Western and Eastern Europe
  Roland Berger, 27th January 2016
• Investing in railways – on the right track
  The Economist. 12th December 2015
• The International Rail Registry and The Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Cape Town Convention—Global Registration of Mobile Assets
  Elizabeth Hirst and Nicolas Gavage, 46 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal November 2015
• The Luxembourg Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock-Overview and Current Status
  Howard Rosen and Benjamin von Bodungen, 46 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal November 2015
• Why the Luxembourg Protocol will Boost Railway Investment in Africa
  Howard Rosen, Railways Africa, Issue 5/2015
• Gathering Momentum?
  Watson Farley & Williams, July 2015
• The Cape Town International Rail Registry and the Development of State Registries
  Martin Fleetwood and Peter Bloch, 3 Cape Town Convention Journal 2014
• Public Service and the Cape Town Convention
  Howard Rosen, 2 Cape Town Convention Journal 2013
• The Luxembourg Rail Protocol – Extending Cape Town Benefits to the Rail Industry
  Howard Rosen, Martin Fleetwood and Benjamin von Bodungen
  17 Uniform Law Review 2012. Reproduced with UNIDROIT permission
• Building an African Infrastructure – Finance & Development
  Paul Collier, International Monetary Fund dated December 2011, Vol. 48, No. 4.
• The Rail Industry Environmental Impact
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ, 15th December 2011
• Identification of Railway Rolling Stock and Registration
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ, 15th October 2011
• Regulation of the Rail Industry
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ, 15th September 2011
• The Protocol to the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Railway Rolling Stock
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ, 15th August 2011
• Rail Supplement
  ABOGADOS SIERRA Y VAZQUEZ, 15th July 2011
• Protecting rail assets in emerging markets: The Luxembourg protocol
  Rafael Castillo-Triana, Journal of Equipment Leasing Finance Spring 2010 edition
  Copyright © 2010 by the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation – ISSN 0740-008X.
• Putting trains back on track
  Howard Rosen, Infrastructure Investor September – October 2008
• Industry pushes for stock numbers
  Jennifer Rankin, European Voice – October 2008, © 2008 European Voice. All rights reserved. www.europeanvoice.com
• Das Luxemburger Eisenbahnprotokoll
  Zum Protokoll zum Übereinkommen über internationale Sicherungsrechte an beweglicher Ausrüstung betreffend Besonderheiten des rollenden Eisenbahnmaterials vom 23.02.2007
  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
  Howard Rosen, 12 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?
  Martin J. Fleetwood, October 2007
• All tracks lead to Luxembourg: the Luxembourg Rail Protocol
  Martin J. Fleetwood, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, June 2007
• On the Right Track
  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.)
• 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
  Howard Rosen, 6 Uniform Law Review 2001
• Creating an international security structure for railway rolling stock:
  an idea ahead of its time?
  Howard Rosen, 4 Uniform Law Review 1999