Identification of railway rolling stock for registration purposes
Article 14
1. For the purposes of Article 18(1)(a) of the Convention, the regulations shall prescribe a system for the allocation of identification numbers by the Registrar which enable the unique identification of items of railway rolling stock. The identification number shall be: (a) affixed to the item of railway rolling stock; (b) associated in the International Registry with the manufacturer’s name and the manufacturer’s identification number for the item so affixed; or (c) associated in the International Registry with a national or regional identification number so affixed. 2. For the purposes of the preceding paragraph, a Contracting State may, by declaration, state the system of national or regional identification numbers that shall be used with respect to items of railway rolling stock subject to an international interest that is created or provided for, or is intended to be created or provided for, by an agreement entered into by a debtor situated in that Contracting State at the time of the conclusion of that agreement. Such a national or regional identification system shall, subject to agreement between the Supervisory Authority and the Contracting State making the declaration, ensure the unique identification of each item of railway rolling stock to which the system applies. 3. A declaration by a Contracting State according to the preceding paragraph shall include detailed information on the operation of the national or regional identification system. 4. A registration in respect of an item of railway rolling stock for which a declaration pursuant to paragraph 2 has been made shall, in order for the registration to be valid, specify all the national or regional identification numbers to which the item has been subject since the entry into force of this Protocol under Article XXIII(1) and the time during which each number has applied to the item.