THE ISSUE OF UNIFORM SALES REGULATION AT EUROPEAN UNION LEVEL

RRSS 2024 No. 25 - Romanian Review of Social Sciences

1. Authors:
     • Dan VELICU

2. Keywords: international sale of goods, European Union law, business law, European business code, uniform law

3. Abstract:
   \r\n The debate regarding the uniformization of European private law can be placed chronologically at least in the first decades of the nineteenth century.\r\n\r\n The political unification of the German states has shown that after the formation of a custom union and a common market, commercial legislation can be created at the level of the confederation, legislation that will have the effect of strengthening trade relations in a first stage and political and administrative consolidation in a later stage.\r\n\r\n Unfortunately, the interwar initiatives to standardize private law at European level failed with the exception of the international conventions on bills of exchange, promissory notes and cheques.\r\n\r\n The resumption of the process of worldwide standardization under the aegis of the UN has recorded only a few notable successes, including the adoption of the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods in 1980.\r\n\r\n The process of harmonisation of global commercial law preceded the legislative harmonisation pursued by the founding States of the European Communities.\r\n\r\n Against the background in which the interest in ratifying international conventions in the field of commercial law has decreased significantly, but the European Union institutions have been involved in standardizing some segments of private law, the entire vision of uniformity must be revised.\r\n\r\n This study aims to provide some conclusions on the recent trends of uniformity of commercial law at the level of the European Union in relation to the sources of international trade law.\r\n

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