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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 64–90 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Uniform Law Review |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 3 Jun 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 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