The Principles of European Sales Law of the Study Group on a European Civil Code The aim of the Study Group on a European Civil Code is to produce a codified set of Principles of European Patrimonial Law. The Utrecht working team is one of its various research teams, which started carrying out comparative research on sales contracts in 1999. These efforts, being of importance for arriving at a possible future European Sales Law, are based on the acquis communautaire(particularly Directives 1999/44/EC on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods), the Principles of European Contract Law, the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods(CISG), and national legislation. The set of principles on European sales law will be an academic answer to the ongoing process relating to the EU-wide harmonization of contract law. they could be a model law for further comparative and legislative activities within European contract law. The Principles of European Sales Law may serve as an optional instrument in cross-border transactions, allowing the parties to simply refer to this instrument as the applicable law. In addition, the principles may provide a solution when it proves impossible to establish the relevant rules of the applicable law. In this article I have outline the main activities and the outcome of the research of this academic working group. The Utrecht draft covers all kinds of cross-border sales transactions in goods within the European Union. For the various topics is proposed the solutions. In order to deal with the different issues relating to sales contracts, the relevant topics were divided into brief subchapters making up the final set of rules, such as Scope of Application & general provisions, Obligations of the seller, Obligations of the buyer, Remedies, Passing of Risk, Consumer Goods Guarantees.

The Principles of European Sales Law of the Study Group on a European Civil Code The aim of the Study Group on a European Civil Code is to produce a codified set of Principles of European Patrimonial Law. The Utrecht working team is one of its various research teams, which started carrying out comparative research on sales contracts in 1999. These efforts, being of importance for arriving at a possible future European Sales Law, are based on the acquis communautaire(particularly Directives 1999/44/EC on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods), the Principles of European Contract Law, the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods(CISG), and national legislation. The set of principles on European sales law will be an academic answer to the ongoing process relating to the EU-wide harmonization of contract law. they could be a model law for further comparative and legislative activities within European contract law. The Principles of European Sales Law may serve as an optional instrument in cross-border transactions, allowing the parties to simply refer to this instrument as the applicable law. In addition, the principles may provide a solution when it proves impossible to establish the relevant rules of the applicable law. In this article I have outline the main activities and the outcome of the research of this academic working group. The Utrecht draft covers all kinds of cross-border sales transactions in goods within the European Union. For the various topics is proposed the solutions. In order to deal with the different issues relating to sales contracts, the relevant topics were divided into brief subchapters making up the final set of rules, such as Scope of Application & general provisions, Obligations of the seller, Obligations of the buyer, Remedies, Passing of Risk, Consumer Goods Guarantees.

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