One last point to extract from the
Convention legislative history is the comment
by the Greek representative, Professor
Voulgaris, in a debate reported from a session
of the Governing Council of UNIDROIT in
1998, when he said that it was important that
the declaration category ‘list only be effective
within the country which deposited it....lest
otherwise other Contracting States might be
prejudiced’.46 There was no rebuttal of this
comment, and it illustrates how it was always
intended that the effect of the priority of
the categories declared under Article 39 for
NCRIs should only be effective within the
relevant Contracting State.