SMEs in European Contract Law: Background Note for the European Parliament on the Position of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in a Future Common Frame of Reference (CFR) and in the Review of the Consumer Law Acquis

Proposals from the European Commission to work towards greater harmonisation of contract law, and indeed private law more generally, have been described in terms that apparently distance these plans from the introduction of a code civil europa. Nevertheless, the programme for developing ‘non-sector-specific measures’ into a ‘common frame of reference’ constitutes in its fundamentals and aspirations the ambition to create a European law of contract. And the method for the construction of this code replicates the process devising the great European codes of the nineteenth century: a painstaking scholarly endeavour to find consistency and coherence in the divergent national private law systems, except that no legislative process is foreseen.

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Harmonisation of European Contract Law: Citizenship, Diversity and Effectiveness

Cambridge yearbook of European legal studies ◽

10.5235/152888712802730846 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 81-99

Author(s):

Hugh Collins

Keyword(s):

European Commission ◽

Contract Law ◽

Frame Of Reference ◽

Legislative Process ◽

Private Law ◽

European Law ◽

European Contract ◽

Common Frame Of Reference ◽

European Contract Law ◽

Code Civil

Proposals from the European Commission to work towards greater harmonisation of contract law, and indeed private law more generally, have been described in terms that apparently distance these plans from the introduction of a code civil europa. Nevertheless, the programme for developing ‘non-sector-specific measures’ into a ‘common frame of reference’ constitutes in its fundamentals and aspirations the ambition to create a European law of contract. And the method for the construction of this code replicates the process devising the great European codes of the nineteenth century: a painstaking scholarly endeavour to find consistency and coherence in the divergent national private law systems, except that no legislative process is foreseen.

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Miarkowanie kary umownej w Kodeksie cywilnym i wybranych aktach modelowego prawa umów

Forum Prawnicze ◽

10.32082/fp.v0i3(59).265 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 47-63

Author(s):

Alexander Martin Juranek

Keyword(s):

Contract Law ◽

Frame Of Reference ◽

European Contract ◽

Common Frame Of Reference ◽

European Contract Law

Niniejszy artykuł stanowi drugą z publikacji objętych planem badawczym z zakresu prawa cywilnego i handlowego. Ma na celu syntetyczne omówienie najczęściej podnoszonych w polskim piśmiennictwie wątpliwości dotyczących normatywnej konstrukcji mechanizmu miarkowania kary umownej w Kodeksie cywilnym (art. 484 § 2 KC), a następnie porównanie tych uwag z nowoczesnymi projektami kodyfikacyjnymi zgrupowanymi w ramach tzw. modelowego prawa umów (UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, CECL Principles of European Contract Law oraz Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR)). Ostatnia część poświęcona jest wyprowadzeniu wniosków de lege ferenda z przeprowadzonej analizy komparatystycznej.

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What is a Modern Law of Contracts?

European Review of Contract Law ◽

10.1515/ercl-2017-0020 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Muriel Fabre-Magnan

Keyword(s):

Contract Law ◽

Frame Of Reference ◽

The European Union ◽

European Contract ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Recent Reform ◽

The Common ◽

Common Frame Of Reference ◽

European Contract Law

AbstractThe recent reform of French law of contract consecrates and indeed reinforces those mechanisms designed to protect weaker parties that had been recognized progressively by the courts. This is not to say that the brief for contractual justice is now exhausted. Many questions have arisen that are not dealt with by the new legislation, but nor are they by the law of other Member States of the European Union, or indeed by the Common Frame of Reference. Three examples of contemporary problems that contract lawyers should address, are discussed here: access to vital goods and services to persons; the quality of goods and services provided under the contract; and the production process of these goods and services. On these three points, proposals are made which might serve as a basis for a new manifesto for social justice in European contract law.

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