Legislative History 
1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference

Texts of Proceedings
Table of Contents to Conference Presentations

Material available to Conference delegates before the Conference convened

• Report of the 1977 UNCITRAL Committee of the Whole I relating to the draft Convention on the International Sale of Goods
• [1978] Draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods approved by the UNCITRAL
• Secretariat Commentary on the 1978 Draft [For article-by-article Secretariat Commentaries, go to Annotated Text of the CISG; click on the article of interest]

  ["Although the Commentary may not come to play an interpretive role commensurate with, e.g., the U.C.C.'s Official Comments … it is the work-product of a 'remarkable international team' and a significant part of the Convention's legislative history." Joseph M. Lookofsky, 27 Scandinavian Studies in Law (1983) n.185.]

• Comments and Proposals by Governments and International Organizations on the Draft Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and on Draft Provisions Concerning Implementation, Reservations and Other Final Clauses; Analysis by Secretariat

1980 Diplomatic Conference Proceedings

• Proceedings of the First Committee
• Draft articles of the Convention submitted to the Plenary Conference by the First Committee
• Proceedings of the Second Committee
• Draft Final Provisions submitted to the Plenary Conference by the Drafting Committee
• Proposals and amendments submitted to Plenary Conference
• Proceedings of the Plenary Conference

Conference development of each article of the CISG

• For a tailored focus on the Conference history of any of the articles of the CISG, go to the Table of contents to article-by-article chronology of Conference proceedings

• Go also to comments on the importance of this material and caveats associated with its use

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