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

(a) the use prior in time is beneficial to both Contracting Parties and reasonable under the circumstances and

3. This Convention does not affect the rights and obligations of the debtor unless, at the time of conclusion of the original contract, the debtor is located in a Contracting State or the law governing the original contract is the law of a Contracting State.

The fact that the sub contracting agreement was concluded subject to the terms and conditions of the main contract did not imply that the sub contracting agreement incorporated mutatis mutandis the procedure of the main contract concerning the time limits for submission of disputes to arbitration.

A Contracting State shall exchange information with the other Contracting State pursuant to this article 26 without regard to whether the conduct being investigated would constitute a crime under the laws of that Contracting State if such conduct occurred in that Contracting State.

The Contracting States,

(a) Electronic contracting

Procurement and contracting

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.

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.

An Appeal of the High Contracting Parties

Positive Scope of Application of the E Contracting Convention

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.

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.

c In accordance with article XI of the Protocol, the contracting parties to the amended Convention are considered to be also contracting parties to the unamended Convention in relation to any contracting party to the unamended Convention not yet a contracting party to the 1980 Protocol, unless the depositary is notified to the contrary.

If a Contracting State wants to avoid having to apply the Convention even in cases where the applicable law is that of a non Contracting State, it has to make a declaration under article 18 (1)(b) of the E Contracting Convention that it will apply this Convention only () when the rules of private international law lead to the application of the law of a Contracting State .

At the request of the Commission, the Contracting Parties shall

One party seizes the court of a non Contracting State.

This Convention applies in different Contracting States.

Given that the application of rules of electronic commerce was in its early stages, many exclusions by Contracting States were likely at the outset but the need for them would decrease over time.

(f) the economic and social development needs of the Contracting Parties

(a) Assignments of international receivables and to international assignments of receivables as defined in this chapter, if, at the time of conclusion of the contract of assignment, the assignor is located in a Contracting State and

1. At the request of not less than one third of the Contracting States to this Convention, the depositary shall convene a conference of the Contracting States to revise or amend it.

Such Contracting State must give corresponding notice to .

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.

In the event of an environmental emergency, or imminent threat thereof, the Contracting Party of origin shall ensure that the Contracting Parties likely to be affected, are, without delay, notified at appropriate levels.

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.

The place selected should be in a Contracting State.

The court seized is located in a Contracting State.

A meeting of the High Contracting Parties to that effect should be convened.

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.

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.

As well, the claimant argued that the submission of the disputes to arbitration was not made within the prescribed time limits set forth in the main contract and incorporated by reference into the sub contracting agreement.

The court seized is located in a non Contracting State.

Contracting Parties that share natural resources shall cooperate concerning their conservation and harmonious utilization, taking into account the sovereignty, rights and interests of the Contracting Parties concerned in accordance with generally accepted principles of international law.

A few countries have introduced performance contracting as a way of holding managers accountable.

Part of the substantive law to be applied then is the E Contracting Convention.

6. At the request of Contracting or Signatory States to this Convention comprising not less than one third of the Contracting and Signatory States, the depositary shall convene a conference of the Contracting and Signatory States to designate the supervising authority and the first registrar and to prepare or revise the regulations referred to in section II of the annex.

Paragraphs 28 32, first sentence of the Note and the existence of article 18 (1)(b) seem to confirm that in the absence of such a declaration, the E Contracting Convention applies if either (a) the forum State itself is Party to the E Contracting Convention, regardless of the lex causae, or (b) where the law designated by the private international law rules of the forum is the law of a Contracting State (which is only relevant if the court is not located in a Contracting State).

What is said in paragraph 32 of the Note is correct for the court of a non Contracting State, but in light of article 18 (1)(b) and the explanations in the Note concerning the deletion of the requirement for the parties to have their place of business in different Contracting States, it would seem not to be correct for the court of a Contracting State.

The chosen court would have to be in a Contracting State

Furthermore, international electronic commerce presents particular risks for the contracting partners.

Organizational meetings and review meetings of the contracting parties to the Convention on Nuclear Safety

A water use existing at the time an equitable sharing determination is made shall take precedence over a future use, provided the existing use is beneficial to both Contracting Parties and reasonable under the circumstances.

1.194 All insurance services, including contracting for insurance, will have been centralized.