a) 本办法有助于希望恢复海运方式法律统一性的国家增进这一目标并在其他运输方式中确立这一目标。同时，不采取这一目标的国家仍将属于新的海事制度的一部分，今后可以撤消其保留意见并全面适用本文书。
a) This option would advance the objective of restoring uniformity of law in the marine mode, and would establish it in other modes, for those States that wish to pursue that goal. At the same time, States that do not share that goal would still be part of the new marine regime, and possibly in the future could revoke their reservation and apply the instrument fully.