UNCITRAL

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) was established in 1966 and is a subsidiary organ of the United Nations General Assembly with a general mandate to promote the progressive harmonization and unification of international trade law. Since then, UNCITRAL has prepared a number of conventions, model laws and other instruments on the substantive regulation of trade transactions and on other aspects of business law that have an impact on international trade. UNCITRAL meets once a year, usually in summer, alternately in New York and Vienna.