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The convention was concluded at a diplomatic conference held in Cape Town in November 2001. The convention provides for an international legal regime for the creation, perfection and priority of security, title retention and leasing interests in aircraft equipment, railway rolling stock and space assets.

Applicable with effect from 1 March 2006

31 pages

The Luxembourg Protocol to the Convention provides for the application of the convention to railway rolling stock. It establishes an international registry to record leasing interests, with a view to reducing the risks and costs involved in financing high-value mobile equipment. The protocol was signed in Luxembourg in 2007 and entered into force in 2024.

Date of signature 23 February 2007

Entering into force 8 March 2024

22 pages

Convention  adopted by Member States at the 77th session of the Working Party on Rail Transport (Geneva, 15–17 November 2023).

Five ratifications required

Joint Declaration on the promotion of Euro-Asian rail transport and activities towards unified railway law
Signed in Geneva, on 26 February 2013 in the English, French and Russian languages, the three versions being valid

Applicable with effect from 26 February 2013