ABSTRACT
The CMR was largely the work of a committee5 set up by a Working Party on Legal Questions, itself a subsidiary organ of the Inland Transport Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE).6 A draft Convention prepared by the committee was the basis of negotiations between national delegations during 1955 and 1956, conducted mostly in French,7 as a result of which the final text was agreed. The draft was based partly on work done previously by the
1. The Preamble to the CMR. 2. Generally see Loewe, paras. 1-8; Donald, ‘‘CMR-An Outline and Its History’’ [1975] LMCLQ
420-421; Loewe, 1996 ULR 429. 3. Vrebos (1966) 1 ETL 678. 4. See below, 201. 5. Messrs Hostie (UNIDROIT), de Sydow (Sweden) and Kopelmanas (ECE Secretariat). 6. For reference to travaux pre´paratoires see Haak, pp. 8 et seq. and Nickel-Lanz, pp. 187-188. The
documents, which are in English and in French, are deposited in the Library of the United Nations at Geneva, under references such as those given below.
