Article 1 Definitions

For the purposes of this Protocol,

‘Convention’ means the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR);

‘Electronic communication’ means information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic, optical, digital or similar means with the result that the information communicated is accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference;

‘Electronic consignment note’ means a consignment note issued by electronic communication by the carrier, the sender or any other party interested in the performance of a contract of carriage to which the Convention applies, including particulars logically associated with the electronic communication by attachments or otherwise linked to the electronic communication contemporaneously with or subsequent to its issue, so as to become part of the electronic consignment note;

‘Electronic signature’ means data in electronic form which are attached to or logically associated with other electronic data and which serve as a method of authentication.