Report of the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law on the work of its fifty-second session
A/RES/74/182
activities in this field, in particular to avoid duplication of efforts, including among
organizations formulating rules of international trade, and to promote efficiency,
consistency and coherence in the modernization and harmonization of international
trade law, and to continue, through its secretariat, to maintain close cooperation with
other international organs and organizations, including regional organizations, active
in the field of international trade law,
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the United Nations
Commission on International Trade Law; 1
2.
Commends the Commission for the finalization and adoption of the Model
Legislative Provisions on Public-Private Partnerships with an accompanying
legislative guide, 2 the Model Law on Enterprise Group Insolvency and its guide to
enactment, 3 the Practice Guide to the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law Model Law on Secured Transactions 4 and a text on the obligations of
directors of enterprise group companies in the period approaching insolvency, 5 to be
added to part four of the Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law of the United Nations
Commission on International Trade Law; 6
3.
Also commends the Commission for the finalization of the Notes on the
Main Issues of Cloud Computing Contracts prepared by the secretariat and for
approving them for publication, including in the form of a mobile device-friendly
online tool; 7
4.
Welcomes the signing ceremony, held in Singapore on 7 August 2019, for
the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting
from Mediation (Singapore Convention on Mediation), adopted by the General
Assembly in its resolution 73/198 of 20 December 2018, and invites Governments
and regional economic integration organizations that have not yet done so to conside r
becoming a party to the Convention;
5.
Notes with satisfaction the contributions from the Fund for International
Development of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and from the
European Commission, which allow the operation of the repository of published
information under the Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State
Arbitration, 8 and that the Commission reiterated its strong and unanimous opinion
that the secretariat of the Commission should continue to operate the transparency
repository, which constitutes a central feature both of the R ules on Transparency and
of the United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State
Arbitration (Mauritius Convention on Transparency); 9
6.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to operate, through the
secretariat of the Commission, the repository of published information in accordance
with article 8 of the Rules on Transparency, as a pilot project until the end of 2020,
to be funded entirely by voluntary contributions, and to keep the General Assembly
informed of developments regarding the funding and budgetary situation of the
transparency repository based on its pilot operation;
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Ibid., chap. III, sect. C, and annex I.
Ibid., chap. VI, sect. A, and annex II.
Ibid., chap. IV, sect. C.
Ibid., chap. VI, sect. B.
United Nations publication, Sales No. E.13.V.10.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/74/17),
chap. VIII, sect. C.
Ibid., Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/68/17), annex I.
Resolution 69/116, annex.
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