DRAFT COMMON FRAME OF REFERENCE (FOR EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW)

LITERATURE ON THE DCFR

1. Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law

Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR), edited by Christian von Bar, Eric Clive and Hans Schulte-Nölke and Hugh Beale, Johnny Herre, Jérôme Huet, Peter Schlechtriem†, Matthias Storme, Stephen Swann, Paul Varul, Anna Veneziano and Fryderyk Zoll:

Outline Edition 1-1-2009: http://www.storme.be/2009_02_DCFR_OutlineEdition.pdf

also at http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/civil/docs/dcfr_outline_edition_en.pdf

2. Instruments extracted from the DCFR by M.E. Storme

- A DCFR-based Optional instrument for services: "How would an optional instrument for service contracts look like if based on the DCFR", http://storme.be/OptionalInstrumentforServices.pdf, gepresenteerd op de European Law Academy, Trier 19 maart 2010, 122 p.

- A DCFR-based Optional instrument for sales: "How would an optional instrument for sales contracts look like if based on the DCFR", http://storme.be/OptionalInstrumentforSales.pdf, 118 p.

3. Articles by M.E. Storme:

- "Multiparty-relationships in the DCFR: representation, stipulation in favour of third party, plurality, change of parties - perspectives from Belgian law", lezing International conference The Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR): a national and comparative perspective, Kortrijk 10-11 juni 2010, ter perse in V. Sagaert, M.E. Storme, E. Terryn (eds.), The Draft Common Frame of Reference: a national and comparative perspective, Antwerpen-Oxford, Intersentia, 2011, ISBN 9400002165 (ISBN-13: 9789400002166), 504 pp., p. 147-199.

- "Some remarks on the material scope of an optional instrument for contract law", lecture at the Conference Recent Developments in European Private Law, Uniwersytet Slaski W Katowicach, Katowice 23 september 2010 (see http://www.wpia.us.edu.pl/conference-future-european-private-law-brief), in Kierunki rozwoju Europejskiego prawa prywatnego (Recent developments in European Private Law and the influence of European consumer law on national legal systems), eds. M. Jagielskiej, E. Rott-Pietrzyk, A. Wieworowskiej-Domagalskiej, Beck München 2012, ISBN: 978-83-255-1994-0, p. 101-107 (with a Polish summary)

- "Editorial: Fatal attraction", European Review of private law 2011, nr. 3/4

- "Europees contractenrecht stap dichterbij ? Eerste bedenkingen bij het ontwerp van optioneel instrument", de Juristenkrant nr. 230 van 25 mei 2011 = http://vlaamseconservatieven.blogspot.com/2011/05/europees-contractenrecht-stap.html = http://inflandersfields.eu/2011/05/europees-contractenrecht-stap.html

"Le code civil européen: digestion ou inclusion ? Une éloge des genres", Editorial ERPL 2010 no. 2203-204 = http://storme.be/ERPL2-2010Elogedesgenres.pdf.

- "The foundations of private law in a multi-level structure: balancing, distribution of lawmaking power and other constitutional issues", lecture at the conference The Foundations of European Private Law, EUI Fiesole (Firenze) 28-29 september 2009, in R. Brownsword, H. Micklitz, L. Niglia and S. Weatherill (eds.), The Foundations of European Private Law, Hart 2011, ISBN 9781849460651, ch. 23, p. 380-392; provisional text also @ http://storme.be/FiesoleFoundations.html

- "An Optional Instrument for Insurance Contract Law: the point of view of Legal Practice", Note for the European parliament, Directorate General for Internal Policies - C - Legal affairs, Hearing European Parliament 29 April 2010, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201004/20100430ATT73923/20100430ATT73923EN.pdf

- "Het recht inzake meerpartijenverhoudingen in het Ontwerp-GRK vergeleken met het Belgische recht (vertegenwoordiging, derdenbeding, cessie, subrogatie, borgtocht, garantie, delegatie)", TPR 2009 nr. 3, p. 1039-1112, http://storme.be/meerpartijenverhoudingen.pdf

- "The (Draft) Common Frame of reference as a toolbox and as a basis for an optional instrument", Conference Stockholm 22/23 October 2009, org. Swedish presidency of the European Union, in print in A Common Frame of Reference for European Contract Law, Iustus Publishers Uppsala 2011 (ISBN 978-91-7223-443-7), p. 139-154, also @ http://storme.be/DCFRStockholm.html

- "Consumer rights proposal and DCFR", Editorial ERPL 2010 nr.1, p. 1-3 = http://storme.be/ConsumerRightsProposalandDraftCFR.pdf

- "Een richtlijn consumentenrechten zonder een gemeenschappelijk referentiekader ?", lezing studiedag De invloed van het Europese consumentenrecht op het Belgisch contractenrecht. Debat rond het Ontwerp van Richtlijn consumentenrechten, Leuven 16 oktober 2009, DCCR 2009, p. 25-35, ook op http://storme.be/CRD-DCFR.pdf in en http://vlaamseconservatieven.blogspot.com/2010/01/een-richtlijn-consumentenrechten-zonder.html

- "The harmonisation of (the law of) personal security", Engelse versie van de lezing “Die Harmonisierung der persönlichen Sicherheiten in Europa (Garantien / Bürgschaften), Tagung “Europäisches Kreditsicherungsrecht” zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ulrich Drobnig aus Anlass seines 80. Geburtstags, Hamburg 12 december 2008, op http://www.storme.be/harmonisationpersonalsecurity.html en in XVI. Juridica international 2009, p. 73-84. = http://www.juridicainternational.eu/public/pdf/ji_2009_1_73.pdf

- "The structure of the law on multiparty-situations in the 2009 Draft Common Frame of Reference" (2nd revised and expanded version), ERPL 2009, p. 531-557, http://www.storme.be/ERPL 17-4Storme.pdf.

- "Het contractsbegrip op dieet ?", in Tijdschrift voor privaatrecht 2008, p. 305-319, ook op http://www.storme.be/contractsbegripopdieet.pdf.

- "The structure of the law on multiparty-situations in the Draft Common Frame of Reference", verschenen (in zwart-wit) in Juridica international 2008, p. 78-88 (zie : http://www.storme.eu/ji_08_1_78.pdf = http://www.juridicainternational.eu/public/pdf/ji_2008_1_78.pdf) en in Tsjechische vertaling (zie verder).

- "Une question de principe(s) ? Réponse à quelques critiques à l’égard du projet provisoire de « Cadre commun de référence »", lezing op de conferentie "The Draft Common Frame of reference", European Legal Academy / Europäische Rechtsakademie Trier 6-7 maart 2008, 9. ERA-Forum 2008 Supplement 1, p. S65 - S77 (http://www.springerlink.com/content/f522623307413v16) (ISSN 1612-3093 & 1863-9038)

- "Freedom of contract, mandatory and non-mandatory law in European contract law" (update 2008), TSAR (Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg/Journal of South African law) 2008-2, p. 179-195

- "Freedom of contract, mandatory and non-mandatory law in European contract law", lezing congres European legal harmony: goals and milestones, 10th anniversary Juridica international, Tartu (Estland) 6 december 2005, te beluisteren op mms://193.40.5.165/2005/juridica/11storme06.12.05.wmv, in Juridica international 2006, p. 34-44 (http://www.juridicainternational.eu/public/pdf/ji_2006_1_34.pdf); licht gewijzigd in ERPL (European Review of private Law) 2007 nr. 2 p. 235-252 (ook op http://www.storme.be/Storme-Juridica.html)

- "Die Harmonisierung der persönlichen Sicherheiten in Europa", lezing Tagung “Harmonisierung im Europäisches Kreditsicherungsrecht” zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ulrich Drobnig aus Anlass seines 80. Geburtstags, Hamburg 12 december 2008, in Jürgen Basedow, Oliver Remien u. Manfred Wenckstern (ed.), Europäisches Kreditsicherungsrecht, Ulrich Drobnig zum 80. Geburtstag, Mohr Tübingen 2010, p. 7-29, zie http://www.storme.be/harmonisationpersonalsecurity.html

- "The structure of the law on multiparty-situations in the Draft Common Frame of Reference", lezing Congres VIII. Forum on the Civil Code, Praag 4 december 2007 (org. Rechtsfaculteit Karolina Universiteit Praag en Vertegenwoordiging van de Europese commissie bij de Tsjechische Republiek) (supporting slides in kleur @ http://www.storme.be/PraagStormeSlides.ppt), in Tsjechische vertaling als "Struktura právni úpravy vícestrannych právních vztahu v DCFR (Návehu spolecného referencního rámce)", in Sborník statí z diskusních fór o rekodifikaci obcanského práva (red. L. Tichy), Praha: Aspi/Kluwer 2008 (ISBN 9738073573942), p. 179-197, (zie http://www.aspi.cz/aspi/produkty/detail/sbornik_stati_diskusnich_for/).

- "Information requirements and remedies in the principles of European Contract Law", lezing congres "Information requirements and remedies in European contract law", Europäische Rechtsakademie Trier 24 januari 2003, in Informationspflichten und Vertragsschluss im Acquis communautaire, red. R. Schulze, M. Ebers & H.C. Grigoleit, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2003 (ISBN 9783161481260), p. 231-242, ook op http://www.storme.be/PECLinformationTrier.pdf

- "Good faith and contents of contracts in European private law", lecture at the Conference
II International Congress "Bases of a European Contract Law", Lleida 9 mei 2002, in Bases de un derecho contractual europea / Bases of European Contract Law, red. S. ESPIAU ESPIAU & A. VAQUER ALOY, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch 2003 (ISBN 97884844282602), p. 17-30; ook in Electronic Journal of Comparative law (EJCL) vol. 6 (2003) No. 1. en op http://www.storme.be/goodfaithlleida.pdf

- "Schuldnerpflichten, Vertragsstörung und Verantwortung (PECL, PICC, Wiener Kaufrecht, Gandolfi-Code, BGB-Entwurf)", Kongress "Wandlungen des Schuldrechts in Europa", Freiburg i.B. 11 september 2001, in P. Schlechtriem (Hrsg.), Wandlungen des Schuldrechts, Schriften der Ernst von Caemmerer-Gedächtnisstiftung Nr. 5, Baden-Baden: Nomos 2002 (ISBN 3789077836), p. 11-35 (recensie in ZEuP 2004, p. 193)