Royal Decree 114/2020 Approving the Accession of the Sultanate of Oman to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) and the Additional Protocol concerning the Electronic Consignment Note

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We, Haitham bin Tarik, the Sultan of Oman

after perusal of the Basic Statute of the State,

the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) done in Geneva on 19 May 1956,

and the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) concerning the Electronic Consignment Note done in Geneva on 20 February 2008,

and in pursuance of public interest,

have decreed as follows

Article I

The accession of the Sultanate of Oman to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) is hereby approved in the form attached, and the Sultanate declares that it is not bound by the provisions of article 47 of the aforementioned convention.

Article II

The accession of the Sultanate of Oman to the Additional Protocol to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR) concerning the Electronic Consignment Note is hereby approved in the form attached, and the Sultanate declares that it is not bound by the provisions of article 11 of the aforementioned protocol.

Article III

Competent bodies shall deposit the instrument of accession to the aforementioned convention and protocol in accordance with their provisions, subject to the reservations stipulated in article I and article II.

Article IV

This decree shall be published in the Official Gazette, and comes into force on the date of its issuance.

Issued on: 12 Muharram 1442
Corresponding to: 1 September 2020 

Haitham bin Tarik
Sultan of Oman

Published in Official Gazette 1356 issued on 6 September 2020.