It would apply, for example, if parties agreed that the law of a non contracting State should govern a contract but the forum State ruled instead that the law of a Contracting State should apply.

The court seized is located in a Contracting State.

The court seized is located in a non Contracting State.

One party seizes the court of a non Contracting State.

2. This Convention applies to subsequent assignments that satisfy the criteria set forth in paragraph 1 (a) of this article, even if it did not apply to any prior assignment of the same receivable.

It was hard to imagine parties agreeing to apply the convention in non contracting States and it would be difficult for the courts of a non contracting State to apply the provisions of the convention.

3. Any reference to a Contracting State or Contracting States in this Convention applies equally to a regional economic integration organization where the context so requires.

Any reference to a Contracting State or Contracting States in this Convention applies equally to a regional economic integration organization where the context so requires.

(a) the contractual place of receipt or contractual port of loading is located in a Contracting State, or

(b) the contractual place of delivery or contractual port of discharge is located in a Contracting State, or

It would then apply to contracts that were subject to the law of a Contracting State when commercial parties so agreed.

Where the number of Contracting States is relevant in this Convention, the regional economic integration organization shall not count as a Contracting State in addition to its member States that are Contracting States.

All UNCITRAL conventions require that at least one of the parties should belong to a contracting State.

One was what constituted a relevant number of Contracting States another was whether the REIO concerned was to have the status of a Contracting State.

1. Any Contracting State may declare, in accordance with article 21, that it will apply this Convention only

Any Contracting State may declare, in accordance with article 21, that it will apply this Convention only

(a) To carry out administrative measures at variance with the laws and administrative practices of that or the other Contracting State

(c) the actual place of delivery is one of the optional places of delivery under the contract and is located in a Contracting State, or

1. A Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by written notification addressed to the depositary.

This State will apply the Convention only to recognition and enforcement of awards made in the territory of another contracting State.

Mr. Burman (United States of America) said that the words any State should be replaced by either any Contracting State or any State Party or possibly both, depending on how those terms were differentiated.

This Convention applies to (a) assignments of international receivables if, at the time of conclusion of the contract of assignment, the assignor is located in a Contracting State.

He stressed that the law of a Contracting State denoted the ordinary domestic law of that State, which would, in principle, include the provisions of the convention.

2. Any Contracting State may exclude from the scope of application of this Convention the matters it specifies in a declaration made in accordance with article 21.

Any Contracting State may exclude from the scope of application of this Convention the matters it specifies in a declaration made in accordance with article 21.

This Convention applies to an international undertaking if the place of business of the guarantor issuer at which the undertaking is issued is in a Contracting State.

In no case shall the provision of paragraph 1 be construed so as to impose on a Contracting State the obligation

(b) To supply information that is not obtainable under the laws or in the normal course of the administration of that or of the other Contracting State

With regard to the question of disclosure obligations, it was important to make clear that draft article 6 did not encroach on any rule in a Contracting State that imposed an obligation to provide information.

1. This Convention applies to

Any information received under paragraph 1 by a Contracting State shall be treated as secret in the same manner as information obtained under the domestic laws of that State.

Ms. Schulz (Observer for the Hague Conference on Private International Law) noted that the Commission had decided that the draft convention would apply where the rules of private international law led to the application of the law of a Contracting State.

However, there were also advantages to be gained from retaining the possibility of autonomous application, since the courts of a Contracting State as forum State would not then need to examine which law was applicable or how that law affected the scope of application of the convention.

This Convention and any declaration apply only to electronic communications that are made after the date when the Convention or the declaration enters into force or takes effect in respect of each Contracting State.

This Convention and any declaration apply only to electronic communications that are made after the date when the Convention or the declaration enters into force or takes effect in respect of each Contracting State.

In the context of anti abuse, paragraph 27.1 was added in 2003 to clarify that places of business are not separated organisationally where they each perform in a Contracting State complementary functions.

The Note states that this is the case for the United Nations Sales Convention and explains why the requirement for the parties' place of business to be in a Contracting State has been dropped (paragraphs 28 32).

He admitted, however, that the flaw in that line of reasoning was that the provisions of draft article 1 would prevail over any conflicting rule of private international law in a Contracting State.

Mr. Mitrović (Serbia and Montenegro) said that if each Contracting State was free to make as many declarations, in other words reservations, as it wished, the aim of enhancing legal certainty would be undermined.

2. For each State that becomes a Contracting State to this Convention after the date of deposit of the fifth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, this Convention enters into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of six months after the date of deposit of the appropriate instrument on behalf of that State.

Consequently, it is not applicable to States that are not contracting parties.

1. The provisions of this Convention apply to the use of electronic communications in connection with the formation or performance of a contract to which any of the following international conventions, to which a Contracting State to this Convention is or may become a Contracting State, apply

The provisions of this Convention apply to the use of electronic communications in connection with the formation or performance of a contract to which any of the following international conventions, to which a Contracting State to this Convention is or may become a Contracting State, apply

If information is requested by a Contracting State in accordance with this Article, the other Contracting State shall use its information gathering measures to obtain the requested information, even though that other State may not need such information for its own tax purposes.

This Convention shall apply only (a) if, at the time of the conclusion of the contract, the places of business of the parties to a contract of international sale of goods are in Contracting States or (b) if the rules of private international law make the law of a Contracting State applicable to the contract of sale.