Since the Cape Town Convention on Mobile Assets and its related Aircraft Protocol entered into force on March 1, 2006, it has been ratified by 73 states as well as the European Union, making it the most successful private international law treaty ever adopted.
Building on the success of implementation and ratification of the treaty, the Aviation Working Group (AWG) has commenced work on the Cape Town Compliance Index to assess compliance by contracting states with the terms and intent of the treaty. Blakes is supporting the AWG by coordinating and analyzing various sources of data, including responses from leading aviation law practitioners in each contracting state, to generate a compliance scorecard for each state based on a number of variables, including legal and political risks. The Compliance Index is scheduled for publication at the end of 2019 and will be maintained on a semi-annual basis thereafter.
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