Activities and Priorities of the Department of Justice in International Private Law

It allowed for a broad exchange on the mandate of the ALC, the involvement of the Department of Justice in the area of international private law and the priority projects of the Department. [...] [48] At the Diplomatic Conference, given the complexities of the subject-matter, it was resolved to request the preparation of a draft Official Commentary on the text of the draft Convention that would include the policy choices and relevant matters considered during the session, and to defer the finalisation and adoption of the Convention to the fall of 2009. [...] [114] The last government/industry meeting took place in June 2007 and identified the following issues for further consideration: the criteria to be employed for the identification of space assets for the purposes of their registration in the International Registry (and the closely related issue of the sphere of application of the preliminary draft Protocol), the extent to which the creditor’s rem. [...] At the federal level, the Criminal, Security and Treaty Law Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade serves as the Central Authority and is monitoring the application of the Convention with the input of provincial and territorial Central Authorities. [...] [131] In view of facilitating and harmonising the States’ practice under the Convention, the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law published in 2006 a Practical Handbook on the operation of the Convention which is available on the Conference’s website.