An Optional Instrument and Social dumping revisited
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Jacobien W. Rutgers
Abstract
Will an optional instrument on contract law result in social dumping? In this paper it is argued that this is likely to occur especially with respect to b2b contracts. This educated guess is made on the basis of empirical research concerning the Societas Europea and a choice of law in international contracts. This issue has been raised by the publication of the European Commission's Green Paper on ‘policy options for progress towards a European Contract Law for consumer and businesses’, in which the European Commission initiates a consultation with respect to the future of European contract law.
Résumé
Est-ce qu'un instrument optionnel de droit des contrats conduira à du dumping social? Dans cet article, il est soutenu qu'une telle issue est probable, spécialement au regard des contrats entre professionnels. Cette hypothèse est faite sur la base de recherches empiriques concernant la société européenne et un choix de loi dans les contrats internationaux. Cette question a été soulevée par la publication du livre vert de la Commission européenne “relatif aux actions envisageables en vue de la création d'un droit européen des contrats pour les consommateurs et les entreprises”, dans lequel la Commission européenne lance une consultation à propos de l'avenir du droit européen des contrats.
Zusammenfassung
Führt ein Optionales Instrument zu sozialem Dumping? Der vorliegende Beitrag geht davon aus, dass dafür eine große Wahrscheinlichkeit besteht, gerade in reinen Handelsverträgen (b2b). Diese Vorhersage beruht auf empirischen Befunden zur Entwicklung der Societas Europaea und zum Internationalen Vertragsrecht. Die Frage – soziales Dumping – ist in der Tat eine Kernfrage, die das Grünbuch zu “Optionen für die Einführung eines Euopäischen Vertragsrechts für Verbraucher und Unternehmen” im Rahmen des dort eingeleiteten Konsulationsprozesses zur Zukunft des Europäischen Vertragsrechts aufwirft.
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- Green Paper on Policy Options for Progress Towards a European Contract Law for Consumers and Businesses What do we want?
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- General Conclusions
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- A Competitive Approach to EU Contract Law
- Choice, Certainty and Diversity: Why More is Less
- The Commission's 2010 Green Paper on European Contract Law: Reflections on Union Competence in Light of the Proposed Options
- European Contract Law Reform and European Consumer Law – Two Related But Distinct Regimes
- A European Civil Law – for Whom and What Should it Include? Reflections on the Scope of Application of a Future European Legal Instrument
- Is the DCFR ready to be adopted as an Optional Instrument?
- The Common Frame of Reference and the Relationship between National Law and European Law
- ‘Good-Bye Harmonisation by Directives, Hello Cross-Border only Regulation?’ – A way forward for EU Consumer Contract Law
- Policy Choices in European Consumer law: Regulation through ‘Targeted Differentiation’
- An Economic Analysis of Harmonization Regimes: Full Harmonization, Minimum Harmonization or Optional Instrument?
- Five political ideas of European contract law
- Green Paper on Policy Options for Progress Towards a European Contract Law for Consumers and Businesses What do we want?
- ‘Choice is good.’ Really?
- An Optional Instrument and Social dumping revisited
- Towards a European Contract Law through Social Dialogue
- General Conclusions
