The Position of Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises in European Contract Law
by Ilse Samoy (Editor),
Marco B. M. Loos (Editor)
According to the European
Commission, differences in contract law and the additional transaction costs
and complexity they generate in cross-border transactions dissuade a
considerable number of traders, in particular SMEs, from expanding into markets
of other Member States. These differences are also said to limit competition in
the internal market. Furthermore, they underlie the European Commission's draft
Regulation for a Common European Sales Law (CESL). The 2012 Ius Commune
workshop on Contract Law was dedicated to the position of SMEs in European
Contract law and focused on their contractual relations with other SMEs
(SME2SME), consumers (SME2C and C2SME) and larger companies (B2SME and SME2B).
Is there a need for a kind of "consumer law for professionals"? This
book contains the most interesting and challenging contributions to this
workshop.
