This Convention applies to a financial leasing transaction when the leasing agreement and the supply agreement are both concluded on or after the date on which the Convention enters into force in respect of the Contracting States referred to in Article III (1)(a), or of the Contracting State or States referred to in paragraph 1 (b) of that article.

DENUNCIATION

Article XXIV

1. This Convention may be denounced by any Contracting State at any time after the date on which it enters into force for that State.

2. Denunciation is effected by the deposit of an instrument to that effect with the depositary.

3. A denunciation takes effect on the first day of the month following the expiration of six months after the deposit of the instrument of denunciation with the depositary. Where a longer period for the denunciation to take effect is specified in the instrument of denunciation it takes effect upon the expiration of such longer period after its deposit with the depositary.

DECLARATIONS/RESERVATIONS

Article XIX

1. Two or more Contracting States which have the same or closely related legal rules on matters governed by this Convention may at any time declare that the Convention is not to apply where the supplier, the lessor and the lessee have their places of business in those States. Such declarations may be made jointly or by reciprocal unilateral declarations.

2. A Contracting State which has the same or closely related legal rules on matters governed by this Convention as one or more non-contracting States may at any time declare that the Convention is not to apply where the supplier, lessor and the lessee have their places of business in those States.

3. If a State which is the object of a declaration under the previous paragraph subsequently becomes a Contracting State the declaration made will, as from the date on which the Convention enters into force in respect of the new Contracting State, have effect of a declaration made under paragraph 1, provided that the new Contracting State joins in such declaration or makes a reciprocal unilateral declaration.

Article XX

A Contracting State may declare at the time of signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession that it will substitute its domestic law for Article VIII (3) if its domestic law does not permit the lessor to exclude its liability for its default or negligence.

Article XXI

1. Declarations made under this Convention at the time of signature are subject to confirmation upon ratification, acceptance or approval.

2. Declarations and confirmations of declarations are to be in writing and to be formally notified to the depositary.

3. A declaration takes effect simultaneously with the entry into force of this Convention in respect of the State concerned. However, a declaration of which the depositary receives formal notification after such entry into force takes effect on the first day of the month following the expiration of six months after the date of its receipt by the depositary. Reciprocal unilateral declarations under Article XIX take effect on the first day of the month following the expiration of six months after the receipt of the latest declaration by the depositary.

4. Any State which makes a declaration under this Convention may withdraw it at any time by a formal notification in writing addressed to the depositary. Such withdrawal is to take effect on the first day of the month following the expiration of six months after the date of the receipt of the notification by the depositary.

5. A withdrawal of a declaration made under Article XIX renders inoperative in relation to the withdrawing State, as from the date on which the withdrawal takes effect, any joint or reciprocal unilateral declaration made by another State under that article.

Article XXII

No reservations are permitted except those expressly authorised in this Convention.

TERRITORIAL APPLICATION

Article XVIII

1. If a Contracting State has two or more territorial units in which different systems of law are applicable in relation to the matters dealt with in this Convention, it may, at the time of signature, ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, declare that this Convention is to extend to all its territorial units or only to one or more of them, and may substitute its declaration by another declaration at any time.

2. These declarations are to be notified to the depositary and are to state expressly the territorial units to which the Convention extends.

3. If, by virtue of a declaration under this article, this Convention extends to one or more but not all of the territorial units of a Contracting State, and if the place of business of a party is located in that State, this place of business, for the purposes of this Convention, is considered not to be in a Contracting State, unless it is in a territorial unit to which the Convention extends.

4. If a Contracting State makes no declaration under paragraph 1, the Convention is to extend to all territorial units of that State.

In accordance with Article 20 of the Convention, the French Government substitutes for Paragraph 3 of Article 8 the following rule:

“The parties may not derogate from or vary the effect of the provisions of the previous paragraph in so far as the right or claim is derived from a negligent act or omission of the lessor.”

Russian Federation

“In accordance with Article 20 of the Convention on International Financial Leasing, the Russian Federation declares that it will substitute its domestic law for Article 8(3) of the Convention.”