ANNEX IExtract from Uniform Rules concerning the contract for international carriage of passengers and luggage by rail (CIV)

Appendix Ato the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980, as modified by the Protocol for the modification of the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail of 3 June 1999

TITLE IVLIABILITY OF THE CARRIER

Chapter IIILiability in respect of hand luggage, animals, registered luggage and vehicles

SECTION 2Registered luggage

Article 38Successive carriers

If carriage governed by a single contract is performed by several successive carriers, each carrier, by the very act of taking over the luggage with the luggage registration voucher or the vehicle with the carriage voucher, shall become a party to the contract of carriage in respect of the forwarding of luggage or the carriage of vehicles, in accordance with the terms of the luggage registration voucher or of the carriage voucher and shall assume the obligations arising therefrom. In such a case each carrier shall be responsible for the carriage over the entire route up to delivery.