Actes et documents de la Vingtième session / Proceedings of the Twentieth Session Complete set (3 vols.)

This set collects the three volumes of the HccH's Proceedings of the Twentieth Session (2005). Volume 1 includes general information such as membership of the delegations and the minutes of the Opening and Closing Sessions. The complete text of the Final Act of the Twentieth Session appears thereafter. This is followed by the preliminary documents, the conclusions of the Special Commissions of 2003, 2004 and 2005 on General Affairs and Policy of the Conference, together with the working documents and minutes of the First Commission, which dealt with these questions at the Plenary Session. Volume II contains a selection of the relevant documents, including the working documents and minutes of discussions, pertaining to the so-called "Judgments Project" on which the Hague Conference carried out work from 1992 up to and including the First Part of the Nineteenth Session of the Conference, which took place from 6 to 22 June 2001. Volume III contains most of the relevant documents and minutes of the discussions of the Twentieth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, dedicated to the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements, which took place from 14 to 30 June 2005. It encompasses only the documents directly related to the final text of the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements. The documents concerning the initial phase of the so-called "Judgments Project", which took on a new direction in 2002, are published in Tome II of the Proceedings of the Twentieth Session. This volume contains the preliminary documents and working documents, among which the Report drawn up by Andrea Schulz which contextualises the change in direction decided upon with regard to the Convention along with the initial stages of the new working routes, as well as a number of reports of the meetings of the Working Group charged with the question and the successive draft Convention texts. The principal working documents and reports of the meetings of the Special Commission of 2003 and 2004 are also included, exceptionally, in this volume, accompanied by the conclusions reached by the participants in these two meetings. [Subject: Private Law, International Law]

With 78 Members (77 States and the European Union) representing all continents, the Hague Conference on Private International Law is a global inter-governmental organisation. A melting pot of different legal traditions, it develops and services multilateral legal instruments, which respond to global needs. An increasing number of non-Member States are also becoming Parties to the Hague Conventions. As a result, the work of the Conference encompasses more than 140 countries around the world.

The statutory mission of the Conference is to work for the "progressive unification" of these rules. This involves finding internationally-agreed approaches to issues such as jurisdiction of the courts, applicable law, and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in a wide range of areas, from commercial law and banking law to international civil procedure and from child protection to matters of marriage and personal status.
Over the years, the Conference has, in carrying out its mission, increasingly become a centre for international judicial and administrative co-operation in the area of private law, especially in the fields of protection of the family and children, of civil procedure and commercial law.

The ultimate goal of the Organisation is to work for a world in which, despite the differences between legal systems, persons - individuals as well as companies - can enjoy a high degree of legal security.