Since the Cape Town Convention on Mobile Assets and its related
Aircraft Protocol entered into force on March 1, 2006, it has been
ratified by 73 states as well as the European Union, making it the
most successful private international law treaty ever adopted.
Building on the success of implementation and ratification of
the treaty, the Aviation Working Group (AWG) has commenced work on
the Cape Town Compliance Index to assess compliance by contracting
states with the terms and intent of the treaty. Blakes is
supporting the AWG by coordinating and analyzing various sources of
data, including responses from leading aviation law practitioners
in each contracting state, to generate a compliance scorecard for
each state based on a number of variables, including legal and
political risks. The Compliance Index is scheduled for publication
at the end of 2019 and will be maintained on a semi-annual basis
thereafter.
