Institut du Droit International des Transports

In 1956 the parties to the CMR-treaty wrote in the Preamble about the desirability of standardizing the conditions governing the contract for the international carriage of goods by road. As article 31 CMR made national courts competent for legal proceedings arising under the CMR Convention, nowadays every member state has its own legal interpretations on different issues.

Anno 2020 it is time to make a collection of national case law on CMR-treaty. Below, you can find so-called Country reports written by correspondents living and working in the member state. In this reports all issues are systematically dealt with.

IDIT and Foundation Vervoeradres publish reports per country, written by practitioners from member states of the convention. These reports provide information about the interpretation by national judges of all the articles.

All reports have the same format, facilitating international legal comparison.

Missing countries

At this moment we do not yet have correspondents for all member states. In case you are an expert in one of the missing countries and you are willing to fill in the country report, please contact Stichting Vervoeradres at info@sva.nl 

The information in the country report of the Netherlands has been provided by Papis Seck of PapisLaw.

The information in the country report of Czechia has been provided by Mgr. Nora Haapala, JUDr. Alice Kubová Bártková, lawyers and partners of Rödl & Partner, and Mgr. Martin Laipold.

The information in the country report of Poland has been provided by Prof. Krzysztof Wesołowski, Dr Dorota Ambrożuk and Dr Daniel Dąbrowski, University of Szczecin, Faculty of Law and Administration.

The information in the country report of Spain has been provided by Victor Mata and Maria Vidal, lawyers and partners of Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP law firm.

The information in the country report of Greece has been provided by Epameinondas Kalagiakos and Elini Kalaitzaki, lawyers and partners of Kalagiakos & Partners law firm.

The information in the country report of Portugal has been provided by Mateus Andrade Dias and Maria Andrade Dias, lawyers and partners of Andrade Dias law firm.

The information in the country report of United Kingdom has been provided by  John Habergham, director and solicitor at Myton Law, and Christopher Chatfield, lawyer and partner of Kennedys law firm.

The information in the country report of France has been provided by Frédéric Letacq researcher at IDIT and Cécile Legros, Professor of Law at the University of Rouen Normandy and Scientific Director at IDIT.

The information in the country report of Belgium has been provided for by Frederik Vanden Bogaerde, Mathias Dendievel, Vincent van der Mast, Ruben Dewiele, lawyers working with Transport en Logistiek Advocaten.

The information in the country report of Denmark has been provided by Mads Poulsen and Aage Krogh, lawyers and partners of IUNO law firm.

The information in the country report of Germany has been provided by Tobias Eckardt, lawyer and partner of Ahlers & Vogel  law firm, and Joachim Staab, lawyer and partner of Van Diepen Van der Kroef law firm.

The information in the country report of Italy has been provided by professor Francesca Pellegrino, full professor  and Cinzia Ingratoci, Associate professor, both working at the Department of Law, University of Messina.

The information in the country report of Croatia has been provided by prof. Nikoleta Radionov, full professor in maritime law at the University of Zagreb and Adriana Padovan, senior research associate at the Adriatic Institute of the Croationa Academy of Sciences and Arts.

The information in the country report of Lithuania has been provided by Giedrus Abromavicius, senior associate at the Baltics law firm Cobalt.