NETHERLANDS/CAPE TOWN CONVENTION: NO PLANS TO

UNCLAS THE HAGUE 003010 SIPDIS STATE FOR EUR/UBI/REITER AND L/PIL/BURMAN TRANSPORTATION FOR FAA/OGC COMMERCE FOR ITA/ELENZ E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: KTIA BEXP EFIN EAIR EIND ETRD NL SUBJECT: NETHERLANDS/CAPE TOWN CONVENTION: NO PLANS TO RATIFY REF: SECSTATE 199212 ¶1. On November 3 Econoff raised reftel points with Ms. Prachee Brandenburg, Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Transport. Brandenburg said the GONL had no immediate plans to ratify the convention or protocol. ¶2. Brandenburg explained that The Netherlands had participated in the negotiations in order to influence the final texts, with the expectation that they would adopt them in the distant future. Dutch commercial law had been revised in 1994, she said, and government and industry remained satisfied with the current legislation. Consequently, the GONL saw no need to ratify the agreements at this time. BLAKEMAN