UNCITRAL Working Group on Model Procurement Law to Meet in April 2012

April 2012 Meeting in New York:  Working Group I, which is addressing reform of the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law, is meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on April 16-20, 2012.  The documents for that meeting are posted at  http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/commission/working_groups/1Procurement.html.  The April meeting will focus on the guide to enactment for the revised law; the revised law was adopted in July 2011, and is posted at the website noted above.

Many, many congratulations to Caroline Nicholas and the other members of the UNCITRAL Secretariat, for putting together the revised guide to enactment.  It is an extraordinary accomplishment.

Unofficial Compilation of Revised Guide to Enactment:  For the convenience of those preparing for the meeting, I have posted an unofficial compilation of the working documents (Working Paper (WP) 79 plus addenda) which make up the draft revised guide, paginated throughout.  For those who have google accounts, that document is available at Draft Revised Guide to Enactment - Compilation - Paginated (to those who have google accounts), and at https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1o7sqhJOjdvZjRxYzFlaWNUQ0t1clg2WlRISVFFZw, and a copy will be posted on a private FTP site for working group members.  Please feel free to repost the document.

Suggesting Topics for April Meeting:  It will be impossible, in the course of the April meeting, to address all aspects of the revised guide.  I would recommend that readers review the draft guide to enactment, and then perhaps use this space (the comments below) to suggest topics from the guide that the working group might wish to focus on in April in New York.

With best regards,

Chris Yukins

cyukins@law.gwu.edu