Seminar Baku

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Harmonizing the international procedures of cargo
handling documentation
XVIII Plenary Meeting of the International Associa
tion Coordination Council on Transsiberian Transp
ortation Munich, 28-29 September 2009
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Scope of the CIM and SMGSState of 1. January
2009
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CIT/OSJD Project Legal Interoperability CIM/SMGS

• Phase 1
• Common CIM/SMGS consignment note
• Phase 2
• Standardised claims handling mechanism
• Phase 3
• Single Eurasian Rail Transport Law

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CIM/SMGS consignment note

• Sum of the CIM- and SMGS-consignment notes
• Based on the United Nations Layout Key for Trade
  Documents
• Recognition as
• customs document
• letter of credit

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Further improvements CIM/SMGS wagon and
container lists
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Electronic CIM/SMGS consignment note

• Legal basis for the electronic exchange of
  consignment note data
• Article 6 9 CIM based on functional
  equivalence
• Article 7 14 SMGS based on an agreement
  between the carrier and the customer
• The following provisions for the CIM/SMGS
  e-consignment note are being drawn up
• Recommendation for the Specifications for the
  Electronic CIM/SMGS Consignment Note
• Legal specifications (Appendix 4)
• Functional specifications (Appendix 1)
• Technical implementation Raildata/OSJD/CIT

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Practical use of the CIM/SMGS consignment note
Traffic movements

• More than 30 traffic axes in 4 TEN Corridors
• Examples
• Germany Russia (via Poland and Belarus)
• Germany Ukraine
• Czech Republic Russia / Ukraine
• Romania Russia
• Saves time 16 hours per train
• Saves money 40 per wagon
• Improves the overall legal certainty
• Further improvements
• Using one CIM/SMGS consignment note plus a wagon
  list or container list
• Extending the scope of the CIM/SMGS consignment
  note

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Use of the CIM/SMGS consignment note
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The Kaliningrad Declaration

• Extension of the CIM/SMGS Consignment note to
• Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China
• International ferry links
• Completion of the work on the electronic CIM/SMGS
  Consignment note
• Training and spread of information
• Further Improvements of the legal framework
• Evaluation of different proposals through CIT and
  OSJD

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Global supplying chains from railway prospective
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Uniform law for CIM/SMGS traffics
Uniform CIM/SMGS law
Common CIM/SMGS consignment note
CIM/SMGS claims handling rules
CIM/SMGS liability
CIM and SMGS