CENTRE OF RESEARCH ON DOMESTIC EUROPEAN AND TRANSNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
CENTRE OF RESEARCH ON DOMESTIC EUROPEAN AND TRANSNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

Relevant Legislative Instruments, Reforms and Proposals

Reforms / Proposals

M. Heidemann, International Commercial Harmonisation and National Resistance: The Development and Reform of Transnational
Commercial Law and its Application within National Legal Culture – WG Hart Workshop: “Theory and Practice of Harmonisation”. Institute
of Advanced Legal Studies, London 24 – 26 Jun 2008

Principles of international commercial contracts – (Final draft as adopted by the Working Group and edited by the Secretariat) – International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, Rome, 2004

Relevant Legislative Instruments

International Conventions

United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 1980) (CISG)

Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods

United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (Hamburg, 1978) (the “Hamburg Rules”)

United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (New York, 2005)

EU Regulations

Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I)

Regulation (EC) No 864/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II)

Restatements, Principles and Models

Uniform Rules on Contract Clauses for an Agreed Sum Due upon Failure of Performance (1983)

UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce (1996) with additional article 5 bis as adopted in 1998

UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions (2016)

UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions: Guide to Enactment (2017)

UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (2017)

UNCITRAL Model Law on Recognition and Enforcement of Insolvency-Related Judgments (2018)

UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency (1997)

European Law Institute – Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law

The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (UPICC)

Model Clauses for the Use of the UNIDROIT Principles (UPICC)

“Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL)” produced by the Project Group “Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law”

“Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law (PRICL)” produced by the Project Group on Principles of Reinsurance Contract Law

European Law Institute – Model Rules on Online Intermediary Platforms

Reforms

Relevant Legislative Instruments

REGULATION (EU) 2020/1784 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 November 2020 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents) (recast)

REGULATION (EU) 2020/1783 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 25 November 2020 on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters (taking of evidence) (recast)

REGULATION (EU) No 655/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 May 2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order procedure to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters

REGULATION (EU) No 650/2012 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession

REGULATION (EU) No 1215/2012 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

2007 Convention on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters

REGULATION (EC) No 861/2007 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 July 2007 establishing a European Small Claims Procedure

REGULATION (EC) No 1896/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 December 2006 creating a European order for payment procedure

REGULATION (EC) NO 805/2004 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 21 April 2004 creating a European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims