GENERAL OVERVIEW ON THE CONTRACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE LAW OF THE EU
GENERAL OVERVIEW ON THE CONTRACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE LAW OF THE EU

Summary/Abstract: This paper explores and elaborates contractual liability in EU legal models and rules, elaborating the content of the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) that were published in 1994 and supplemented in 1999. In the paper, PECL is seen as a model of rules closely related to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 1980 and The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 1994. The newest tendency of European private law are expressed in the academic draft containing principles, definitions and model rules of European Private Law, also known as DCFR, which originated in 2009 as a result of the work of two groups within the EU Working Group on European Civil Code: Study group on European civil code and Research group on EC Private Law (Acquis Group). In conclusions, this paper shows the basic rules governing the issue of contractual liability in Macedonian legal system and gives comparative analysis on the compliance with the European rules and legal models.

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