[Hague-jur-commercial-law] Directions & Agenda for May 9 APIL meeting

[Manon Ress]

SECRETARY OF STATE'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
STUDY GROUP ON ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS

Randolph Building Conference Center
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
401 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450

AGENDA


DRAFT HAGUE CONVENTION ON EXCLUSIVE CHOICE OF COURT AGREEMENTS


9:00	- WELCOME & INTRODUCTION	 			

SCOPE OF THE CONVENTION (ARTS. 1-4)

9:30	- Exclusion of Maritime and Other Transport Claims (Art. 2.2.f)
	
	   Intellectual Property (Art. 2.2.k; Art. 2.3; Art. 6; Art. 10; Drafting
Committee text)

    Application to Insurance/Reinsurance Contracts (Art. 2; 15; Report
of Drafting Committee)

10:15  - Non-Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements (Art. 3; Brand
Proposal)

   -  note Art. 3(b) changes presumption of U.S. law on exclusivity

JURISDICTION (ARTS. 5 - 8)

10:30	- Internal Allocation of Jurisdiction (Art. 5.3; Art. 7(e); Art. 
9.1bis)

	  - note Art. 5.2 preclusion of use of forum non conveniens

10:45	- Enforcement of Choice of Court Agreement (Art. 7)
	- Proposed Article 20 Declaration Excluding Specific Matters
(Drafting Committee text)
	- "non-negotiated contracts"

RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT (ARTS. 9 - 16)


11:30  - Grounds for refusing enforcement (Art. 9)
	 - Defective Service of Process (Art. 9(c))
	 - Inconsistent Judgments (Art. 9(f))

12:00  - Judgments From Non-Contracting States (Art. 11; Drafting
Committee text)

12:20  - Damages (Art. 15; Drafting Committee text)

BREAK FOR LUNCH (12:45 - 1:15)

GENERAL PROVISIONS

1:15  - Declarations to Limit Application to Cases Wholly Unconnected
  With Forum (Art. 18; Drafting Committee text) or Wholly Domestic
  (Art. 19; Drafting Committee text)

1:30  - Prospective Application (Drafting Committee "Transitional" Article
16A)

1:45  - Federal State Clause (Art. 25)

2:15  - Relationship with other Treaties (Art. 23)

2:45  - Other Issues

3:00  - END


DOCUMENTS:

December 2004 Report of Masato Dogauchi and Trevor Hartley, including 
draft text of the Convention on Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements

May 2005 Report of the Drafting Committee, including draft text of 
revised articles

R. Brand Proposal to Include Non-Exclusive Choice of Court Agreements

Written Comments Submitted to the Department of State










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