Following recommendations made by Gomez & Bikker’s Aviation Finance Practice Group www.gobiklaw.com, on 17 May 2010 the Government of Aruba and the Netherlands tilles has ratified and implemented the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Aircraft Protocol thereto. Jointly, these two instruments are generally referred to as the Cape Town Convention. The Convention and Protocol will enter into force on 1 September 2010. The decision to join the Cape Town Convention was taken by the Read the rest of this entry »
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The Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on matters specific to Aircraft Equipment (Protocol or AEP) was adopted on November 16th, 2001 and come into force on March 1st, 2006.[1] It was adopted during a diplomatic conference under the joint auspices of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Read the rest of this entry »
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The Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Convention or CIME) was realized in November 2001 in Cape Town and has come into force on April 1st, 2004. The Convention was created to facilitate the financing and acquisition of mobile equipment of high value and to establish a legal framework for international interests in such equipment for that purpose to create an international registration system for Read the rest of this entry »
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The status lists for the Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol have been updated to take account of the deposit of instruments by the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 17 May 2010. The updated lists are available via the following links: http://www.unidroit.org/english/implement/i-2001-convention.pdf
Gomez & Bikker’s Lincoln D. Gomez and B. Patrick Honnebier played mayor role in the process.
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In view of 10 October 2010, the date on which the Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba have chosen to adopt the US dollar as their new currency. As from 1 January 2011, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) will be responsible for payments on Bonaire, Sint Read the rest of this entry »
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On March 5, 2010, the Minister of Finance of the Netherlands Antilles granted an exchange license to the Dutch Caribbean Securities Exchange N.V. (DCSX).The DCSX is an international exchange for listing and trading on the island of Curaçao. The DCSX provides a time- and cost-efficient, transparent listing for international and regional corporations and investment funds, becoming an important alternative to the Anglo-Saxon legal and regulatory framework of the regional exchanges in other jurisdictions.
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March 13, 2010 • 11:07 am
On October 10, 2010, the Netherlands Antilles as a jurisdiction within the Kingdom of the Netherlands will be dissolved. Instead, two separate new jurisdictions, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, will come into existence. The other three islands of the current Netherlands Antilles (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, known collectively as the BES islands) will become overseas municipalities of the Netherlands; public bodies as described in Read the rest of this entry »
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