The CISG and European Private Law: When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do

IF 0.2 Q4 LAW European Review of Private Law Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.54648/erpl2022039
Ingeborg Schwenzer, Patrick Wittum
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The greatest success of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is probably the strong influence it has exerted on law reformers both at the domestic and the international level. Since its coming into force, there have been significant reforms of European private law through harmonization efforts of the European Union and legislative activities of its Member States. This article shows that there is a strong trend for their modernizations in the area of sale of goods and contract law to follow the solutions found under the CISG, especially concerning the definition of non-conformity and damages based on strict liability coupled with a foreseeability requirement. There are also occasional improvements like the exemption for impediments beyond the obligor’s control barring both damages and explicitly also specific performance or the open recognition of gain-based damages. Still, some departures from the solutions of the CISG need to be criticized, amongst others narrow definitions of the concept of sale of goods, the foreseeability limitation for damages not applying in cases of gross negligence or fraud, and separate provisions for cases of hardship.
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《销售公约》与欧洲私法:入乡随俗
《国际货物销售合同公约》(《销售公约》)最大的成功可能是它对国内和国际一级的法律改革者产生了强大的影响。自其生效以来,通过欧洲联盟的协调努力及其成员国的立法活动,对欧洲私法进行了重大改革。这篇文章表明,在货物销售和合同法领域,有一种强烈的现代化趋势,即遵循《销售公约》下的解决方案,特别是在不符合规定和基于严格责任和可预见性要求的损害赔偿的定义方面。偶尔也会有一些改进,比如对债务人无法控制的障碍的豁免,既禁止损害赔偿,也明确禁止具体履行或公开承认基于收益的损害赔偿。尽管如此,一些偏离《销售公约》解决方案的做法仍需受到批评,其中包括对货物销售概念的狭义定义、对重大过失或欺诈案件不适用的损害的可预见性限制,以及对困难案件的单独规定。
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