“Pre-summer-vacation-ICC-Opinion-Review” #1
Where I am
it is summer; and I have been hit by the summer feeling.
My summer
vacation will start at the end of this week. After that I will close down for 3
weeks. I really look forward to that – BUT before I turn off my computer I will
share with you four ICC Opinion reviews that are only available on lcviews.com;
one every day…
The first
one is Official Opinion R654 / TA647rev, that deals with the language of a CMR
consignment note:
Quote
Title:
All documents in English
Links:
UCP 600:
N/A
ISBP 745:
A21(a)(d)
Topic:
Language of documents
Details
of the query:
The LC
included the following requirement:
“All documents should be issued in English.”
The CMR was
rejected for the following reason:
“CMR-not preprinted in English”.
The CMR was
pre-printed in French and in Croatian; the document did provide the description
of the fields in English on the reverse.
Does the
requirement apply to the language in which data on a document is completed, or
also to the pre-printed form?
ICCs
opinion:
A previous
ICC opinion (R.564), stated:
""all required documents must be
issued in English” relates to the data thereon that would evidence compliance
with the terms of the credit and the relevant provision(s) of the UCP.”
Because the
data that is inserted in the respective fields of the CMR document was in
English, there is no discrepancy.
Full
transcript:
This review
is written by LC Views.
For the
full transcript of the Official ICC Opinion please contact ICC Books or DC-Pro.
Reference:
Official
Opinion R654 / TA647rev - 2005-2008
Unquote
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Kim