Exporting the Luxembourg Rail Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment to Africa

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Abstract

This article recommends the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and appeals to African countries to accede to the Luxembourg Protocol on Railway Rolling Stock (Rail Protocol). The discussion in this article focuses on the extent to which Article XXII of the Rail Protocol can be applied with respect to Africa. The article critically analyses the competence of the African Economic Community (AEC) and its sub-regional organizations to accede to the Cape Town Convention and Rail Protocol. The author provides a detailed argumentative analysis of the legal mandate of the AEC and the influence of African Union (AU) laws on the competence of the AEC’s sub-regional organizations to make declarations under the Cape Town Convention and Rail Protocol. The analysis confirms that competence to accede to the Convention and Rail Protocol resides with sovereign States in Africa and not with the AU, the AEC, the Organisation pour l’harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires, or any existing sub-regional organization in Africa.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)64–90
Number of pages27
JournalUniform Law Review
Volume27
Issue number1
Early online date3 Jun 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Bibliographical note

© The Author(s) (2022). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of UNIDROIT.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

  • African Union
  • African Union Law
  • UNIDROIT
  • Cape Town Convention
  • international Commercial Law
  • Private International Law

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