Official Commentaries

Purchase the digital version of the 5th Edition of Sir Roy Goode's Official Commentary to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters specific to Aircraft Objects (2022).

The Official Commentary on the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Aircraft Protocol, produced by Professor Sir Roy Goode pursuant to a Resolution of the Cape Town Diplomatic Conference, was published in 2002, and quickly became the definitive guide to the Convention and the Aircraft Protocol. It was last revised in 2019. Much has changed in the intervening three years. The Convention has now been ratified by 83 States and the Protocol by 80 States, together in each case with the European Community (now the European Union). The experience of the aviation industry based on large numbers of transactions registered under the Convention and Protocol, which reached one million registrations in January 2019, has revealed a host of new issues which needed to be addressed. In addition, the International Registry for aircraft objects has been progressively updated, and is the subject of new regulations which entered into force in February 2022. In this fifth edition, Sir Roy has extensively revised and expanded the Official Commentary to take account of these and other important developments and to expand the analysis of a range of issues. The Official Commentary: Fifth Edition is an essential guide for all those interested or involved in aviation finance and leasing.

Purchase the electronic copy of the printed version of the 3rd Edition of Sir Roy Goode's Official Commentary to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Luxembourg Protocol thereto on Matters specific to Railway Rolling Stock (2024).

Ten years have elapsed since the publication of the second edition of the Official Commentary on the Convention and Luxembourg Protocol covering railway rolling stock. This third edition brings the text fully up to date, examining in detail both these instruments and the Rail Registry regulations, all of which only came into force on 8 March 2024. These introduced an entirely new system, the unique and permanently affixed railway vehicle registration system (URVIS), the use of which is compulsory when registering an interest in an item of railway rolling stock. Moreover, in its treatment of equipment-neutral provisions of the Convention,this third edition also updates the other Official Commentaries. With the entry into force of the Protocol and regulations, this new edition is an indispensable guide for all those involved with rail finance and leasing, whether as creditors, debtors, financial intermediaries or scholars and students.

Purchase the electronic copy of the printed version of Sir Roy Goode's Official Commentary to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol on Matters specific to Mining, Agricultural and Construction Equipment (2021).

Purchase the electronic copy of the printed version of Sir Roy Goode's Official Commentary to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on Matters specific to Space Assets (2013)