Title I
General Provisions
Article 1
Scope
§ 1 These Uniform Rules shall apply to every contract of carriage of goods by rail for reward when the
place of taking over of the goods and the place designated for delivery are situated in two different
Member States, irrespective of the place of business and the nationality of the parties to the contract of
carriage.
§ 2 These Uniform Rules shall apply also to contracts of carriage of goods by rail for reward, when the
place of taking over of the goods and the place designated for delivery are situated in two different
States, of which at least one is a Member State and the parties to the contract agree that the contract is
subject to these Uniform Rules.
§ 3 When international carriage being the subject of a single contract includes carriage by road or
inland waterway in internal traffic of a Member State as a supplement to transfrontier carriage by rail,
these Uniform Rules shall apply.
§ 4 When international carriage being the subject of a single contract of carriage includes carriage by
sea or transfrontier carriage by inland waterway as a supplement to carriage by rail, these Uniform
Rules shall apply if the carriage by sea or inland waterway is performed on services included in the list
of services provided for in Article 24 § 1 of the Convention.
§ 5 These Uniform Rules shall not apply to carriage performed between stations situated on the
territory of neighbouring States, when the infrastructure of these stations is managed by one or more
infrastructure managers subject to only one of those States.
§ 6 Any State which is a party to a convention concerning international through carriage of goods by
rail comparable with these Uniform Rules may, when it makes an application for accession to the
Convention, declare that it will apply these Uniform Rules only to carriage performed on part of the
railway infrastructure situated on its territory. This part of the railway infrastructure must be precisely
defined and connected to the railway infrastructure of a Member State. When a State has made the
above-mentioned declaration, these Uniform Rules shall apply only on the condition
a) that the place of taking over of the goods or the place designated for delivery, as well as the route
designated in the contract of carriage, is situated on the specified infrastructure or
b) that the specified infrastructure connects the infrastructure of two Member States and that it has
been designated in the contract of carriage as a route for transit carriage.
§ 7 A State which has made a reservation in accordance with § 6 may withdraw it at any time by
notification to the Depositary. This withdrawal shall take effect one month after the day on which the
Depositary notifies it to the Member States. The declaration shall cease to have effect when the
convention referred to in § 6, first sentence, ceases to be in force for that State.