a private, international association of maritime jurists founded in Antwerp
in 1897, to which belong a number of national maritime law associations, including
The Canadian Maritime Law Association representing Canada. Some important
changes, also drafted by the CMI, were made to the Hague Rules 1924 by the Visby
Protocol of 1968.15 Then in 1979, another Protocol was adopted at the initiative of the
CMI, changing the basic monetary unit referred to in the Convention from poincaré
gold francs to Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) of the International Monetary Fund.
This amendment is often referred to as the “SDR Protocol”