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Redline Draft for Conference Call 6-5-07 1 (May 31, 2007)

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May 27131 2007 -
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subject to change
United Nations Convention on the Assignment
of Receivables in International Trade
Prefatory Note
The United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade has been signed by
the United States and may be considered for ratification by the United States Senate.
The Convention permits a country that adopts the Convention to make declarations with respect to specified
articles of the Convention. By a declaration the adopting country modifies or supplements a provision of the
Convention in a manner permitted by the Convention. The articles of the Convention with respect to which a
declaration may be made are set forth below. Following each article is either a declaration proposed for adoption by
the United States Senate or a statement that no declaration is proposed. Several understandings relatingto te
Convention are also nroposed. In an understanding the adontin, country sets forth its interpretation of a
particular provision of the Convention without modifr-  or  .. iementiu it. in addition, below are various notes
Laaesing how the United States Department of State's renort to the United States Senate might provide further
explanations of several of the pronosed declarations and understanding.
These proposals are being made by a drafting committee organized by the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. comprised of uniform law commissioners and representatives of the
American Law Institute. The drafting committee benefited from consultation with renresentatives of the Uniform
Law Conference of Canada and the Mexican Uniform Law Center, as well as the United States Department of State
and other advisors and observers. The nnosals have not at this noint been approved by the United States
Department of State nor have theY been submitted to the United States Senate.
A full copy of the Convention may be found at
httn://www.tincitral.org/aincitral/enluncitral texts/nayments/2OO1Convention receivables.html. Questions and
comments concerninw the nrouosals should be addressed to Harold Burman at the United States Department of State
at burmanhskstate.gov, Edwin E. Smith at Edwin.Smith(kbingham.com, and Steven 0. Weise at
stev;e~weise(~heIlereh rman .com.
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Article 2. Assignment of receivables
For the purposes of this Convention:
(a) Assignment means the transfer by agreement from one person (assignor) to another person (assignee) of
all or part of or an undivided interest in the assignor's contractual right to payment of a monetary sum (receivable) from
a third person (the debtor). The creation of rights in receivables as security for indebtedness or other obligation is
deemed to be a transfer;
[The Report to the Senate should explain in connection with the definition of receivable : A receivable is a
contractual right to payment of a monetary sum. For example, a licensor's contractual right to payment under a
license (such as a royalty or license fee) and an assignor's or transferor's contractual right to payment t46oxndb an
assignment or other transfer of an interest in intellectual property are contractual rights to payment of a monetary sum

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