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.K. To Join CANA. Convention
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E Government has decided that the Mited Kingdom should accede to the ention on the Contract for the Internal Carriage of Goods by Road, ly known as CMR, when an oppory for the necessary legislation arises.
e Convention deals with matters of te civil law relating to international ige of goods by road. It sets out the ctive rights and duties of carriers. gnors and consignees under any acts for international road haulage; es their liabilities; prescribes the mation that is to be included in the gnment note accompanying the s in transit: and lays down procedure ime limits for legal action arising out iss or damage in transit or delay in cry. It also makes provision for port operations which arc carried out lore than one carrier.
ie Convention follows the general rn of the Hague Rules for transport ea, the Warsaw Convention for air port and the Berne Convention for transport (CIM), to all of which the ed Kingdom is a party. It was pred iii Geneva in 1956 under the ices of the Economic Commission for lpc. and the United Kingdom took in its preparation.
her countries already party to the vention, which came into force in , are Austria. Belgium, France, the nan Federal Republic, the Nethers. Poland and Yugoslavia.