LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference

[Original: English]
[1 April 1980]

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I. Introduction

A. Submission of the report

1. The Conference at its 1st plenary meeting entrusted the Second Committee with the consideration of the draft articles concerning implementation, declarations, reservations and other final clauses (A/CONF.97/6) (with the exception of article X [became CISG article 95 ] : Declarations relating to contracts in writing) and of the draft Protocol to the Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods (A/C0NF.97/7) prepared by the Secretary-General.

2. The present document contains the report of the Second Committee to the Conference on its consideration of the draft articles referred to it, and of other proposals made to the Second Committee during its deliberations.

B. Election of officers

3. At its 3rd plenary meeting on 11 March 1980 the Conference unanimously elected Prof. Mantilla-Molina (Mexico) as Chairman of the Second Committee. On 17 March 1980, at the 1st meeting of the Second Committee. Mr. Mikola P. Makarevitch (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) was elected Vice-Chairman of the Second Committee. On 18 March 1980, at the 2nd meeting of the Second Committee, Dr. Venkatramiah Kuchibhotla (India) was elected Rapporteur of the Second Committee.

C. Meetings, organization of work and structure of this report

(i) Meetings

The Second Committee held 9 meetings, between 17 March and 1 April 1980.

(ii) Organization of work

5. At its 1st Meeting on 17 March 1980, the Second Committee adopted as its agenda the provisional agenda contained in A/C0NF.97/C.2/L.1.

6. The Second Committee proceeded mainly by way of an article-by-article discussion of the draft articles before it and of the amendments to these draft articles submitted by representatives during the Conference. After initial consideration of an article and amendments pertaining thereto by the Second Committee, and subject to the decisions taken on these amendments, the article was referred to the Drafting Committee.

(iii) Plan of this report

7. This report describes the work of the Second Committee relating to each article before it, in accordance with the following scheme:

II. Consideration by the Second Committee of the draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: draft articles concerning implementation, declarations, reservations and other final clauses

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