The Parties Choice of the Common European Sales Law - Which Governing Law?
Author | : Maren Heidemann |
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Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2016 |
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This paper examines the choice of law provisions in the proposed Common European Sales Law, COM (2011) 635 final. It critically analyses the chosen method and wording of the instrument taking recourse also to the recent ELI statement and submits that some of its declared objectives may not be achieved in its current form. The author highlights contradictory effects of the rules relating to Art 6 of the Rome I Regulation and the effect of the choice of law rules on consumers. The context of EU law and wider international trade between EU and non-EU traders and consumers is explained by analyzing object and objectives of the CESL and the CISG in comparison. The author suggests a method of deriving a legal basis for choosing the CESL directly as governing law of the contract based on object and purposes of the legal instrument and concludes by recommending to redraft the CESL as a truly uniform source accompanied by law reform in the private international law sector rather than insisting on the status quo in current European choice of law legislation.