International Institute for the Unification of Private Law

The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, abbreviated UNIDROIT, is intergovernmental organization on harmonization of private international law, amongst others through drafting of conventions and production of model laws. As of 2012, the organziation had 63 memer states

Membership

States become members through acceding through its statute. The 63 members are:

Member country	Year of joining
Argentina	1972
Australia	1973
Austria	1948
Belgium	1940
Bolivia	1940
Brazil	1940
Bulgaria	1940
Canada	1968
Chile	1951
China	1986
Colombia	1940
Croatia	1996
Cuba	1940
Cyprus	1999
Czech Republic	1993
Denmark	1940
Egypt	1951
Estonia	2001
Finland	1940
France	1948
Germany	1940
Greece	1940
Holy See	1945
Hungary	1940
India	1950
Indonesia	2009
Iran	1951
Iraq	1973
Ireland	1940
Israel	1954
Italy	1940
Japan	1954
Latvia	2006
Lithuania	2007
Luxembourg	1951
Malta	1970
Mexico	1940
Netherlands	1940
Nicaragua	1940
Nigeria	1964
Norway	1951
Pakistan	1964
Paraguay	1940
Poland	1979
Portugal	1949
South Korea	1981
Serbia	2001
Romania	1940
Russia	1990
San Marino	1945
Saudi Arabia	2009
Slovakia	1993
Slovenia	1995
South Africa	1971
Spain	1940
Sweden	1940
Switzerland	1940
Tunisia	1980
Turkey	1950
United Kingdom	1948
United States	1964
Uruguay	1940
Venezuela	1940

Conventions

Unidroit has over the years prepared the following international Conventions, drawn up by Unidroit and adopted by diplomatic Conferences convened by member States of Unidroit:

• Convention relating to a Uniform Law on the International Sale of Goods (The Hague, 1964)
• Convention relating to a Uniform Law on the Formation of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (The Hague, 1964)
• International Convention on Travel Contracts (Brussels, 1970)
• Convention providing a Uniform Law on the Form of an International Will (Washington, D.C., 1973)
• Convention on Agency in the International Sale of Goods (Geneva, 1983)
• Unidroit Convention on International Financial Leasing (Ottawa, 1988)
• Unidroit Convention on International Factoring (Ottawa, 1988)
• Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (Rome, 1995)
• Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town, 2001) (including Protocols on Aircraft (2001) and Rail equipment (2007)
• Geneva Securities Convention (Geneva, 2009)

UNIDROIT is depositary of two of its conventions: the Cape Town Convention (including its two protocols) as well as the Geneva Securities Convention.

See also

• English contract law
• UK commercial law

External links

• Unidroit official website