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Common CIM-SMGS consignment note for international rail transport
Dr. Th. Leimgruber, Secretary General of the CIT
UNECE / ECO
Regional Workshop of Euro-Asian Transport linksTeheran, 27-29 April 2009
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The CIT
200 Railway Undertakings
Association under Swiss law located in Bern
Tasks:1. Implementation of COTIF for
practical use2. Standardisation of contractual
relationships
3. Representation of the interests of members to authorities and other associations
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Railway organizations
Standards
Transport Law
Politics
Infrastructure
OSJD
SMGS
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Corridors Europe - Asia
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Scope of CIM und SMGS
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Differences in lawCIM(Uniform Rules concerning the Contract of International Carriage of Goods by Rail - Appendix B to COTIF)
Consensual contract
Contractual freedom
Consignment note design within the competence of RUs
Joint and several liability
SMGS
(Agreement on International Goods Transport by Rail)
Formal contract
Obligation to set and publish tariffs and to carry
Consignment note defined in SMGS itself
Individual liability
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Project: Legal interoperability CIM/SMGS
Phase 1:A common CIM/SMGS consignment note
Phase 2:A unique claim handling mechanism
Phase 3:Law harmonisation
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Mostiska II
25 July 2006
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CIM/SMGS consignment note
• “Sum” of the CIM- and SMGS-consignment notes
• Based on the United Nations Layout Key for Trade Documents
• Recognition as 1. customs document2. letter of credit
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Kaliningrad
Budapest
Ljubljana
Kyjiv
Berlin
Mainz
Bucuresti
Duisburg
Ilsenburg
St Ingbert
Donec’kZaporizzja
L’viv
Zliv
Kaluga
TřinecJihlava
Kotel
Moskva
ŽŽŽŽilina
Mladá-Boleslav
Praha
Bratislava
Warszawa
Minsk
CIM/SMG consignment note: Scope of use
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Electronic common CIM/SMGS consignment note
•Data flow
•Content of messages
•Legal specifications
•Functional specifications
•Technical implementation
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2nd stage of the project: A unique claim handling mechanism
• Guidelines for the CIM and SMGGS liability regimes
• Legal presumption following reconsignment
• Common CIM/SMGS formal report
• Mutual recognition of the formal report
• Unified CIM/SMGS claims handling rules
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Kaliningrad Declaration
1. Extension of the CIM/SMGS Consignment note to
• Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China
• International ferry links
2. Completion of the work on the electronic CIM/SMGS Consignment note
3. Training and spread of information
4. Further Improvements of the legal framework
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Extending the scope of the CIM/SMGS consignment not e
Land bridge between Europe and Asia
• in transit through Mongolia
• in Central Asia and Kazakhstan
• on TransSib
• on further traffic axes in the Russian Federation
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Next steps
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Demands for customs facilitations
• Common customs procedure for transcontinental transportation
• Single customs declaration based on single transport documentation
• Interconnection with the up-coming customs security obligation of the European Union
Possible solutions:
– Implementation of the existing UN Conventions
– Up-grading the existing UN Conventions
– Put in place a new UN Convention on simplified rail custom transit procedure for Eurasian rail corridors
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Contractual harmonisation
SMPS/SMGSSMPS/SMGS
COTIFCOTIF
„„ GTC GTC EurasiaEurasia ““