CURRENT ISSUES IN THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW
CURRENT ISSUES IN THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW

Summary/Abstract: During the last years, European private law – and contract law within – has become the focus of extraordinarily controversial discussions. Whereas most of the Member States of the European integration and national private lawyers, respectively want to preserve the identity, independence and characters of their legal systems, there are remarkable initiatives to unify European contract law - either by means of so called restatements of soft law character or even with a mandatory European Codification. For a long time the European Institutions – mostly the Commission and the Council – only made a piecemeal harmonization of the contract laws of the European Union. The situation, however, changed after the meeting of the European council in Tampere in 1999, namely, the Commission started to act

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