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"Mr President, it comes as no surprise that this question attracts such attention, because this is a really pivotal and very important issue.
In respect of consumer issues, my services have already carried out the respective workshops and analysed the outcome. The results already serve as a starting point for the review of the consumer contract law acquis, and it was very helpful.
My fellow Commissioner, Mr McCreevy, recently held two workshops on information requirements in financial services legislation and on unfair competition rules for business-to-business (‘B-to-B’) contracts.
Concerning general contract law, the services of Vice-President Frattini plan to organise several workshops during next year.
The Commission fully understands that Parliament wants to be kept informed of, and involved in, the ongoing work on the CFR. We welcome Parliament’s involvement in the CFR process. In addition to the consultation which I mentioned earlier, the Commission will continue to keep Parliament informed of developments in the most appropriate way, in particular through the Parliament working group dedicated to the CFR.
I would like to conclude by thanking Parliament for its support of the Commission’s work on this important dossier. I know that one of the major events in 2006 – if I am not mistaken – took place in Vienna, and the outcome of that conference was very inspiring for our work.
The Commission, as a whole, welcomes wholeheartedly the interest that Parliament is taking in the Common Frame of Reference (CFR).
In its second progress report, the Commission announced that, after the academic CFR has been provided by the researchers, the Commission will carefully select the parts of this draft that correspond to the common legislative objectives. As we know from the decision, this academic CFR is due by the end of this year.
The selection process will be done in consultation with the other institutions, including Parliament and stakeholders, and I think that Parliament, which has many experts here, will play an important role as usual.
The Commission has not yet decided how to proceed in selecting those parts of the academic CFR which will be incorporated into the final Commission CFR, as this decision also depends on the content of the draft CFR that the researchers will deliver. Also, the Commission has not yet decided which topics of the EU contract law acquis the CFR should cover.
In adopting this decision, the Commission will also take into account the content of the academic CFR – which we have not had so far – the outcome of the new CFR workshops, and the position of Parliament and the Council.
The Commission has, however, clearly stated several times that the CFR will not be a large-scale harmonisation of private law or a European civil code. The future framework directive, as a result of the review of the consumer contract law acquis, is not dependent on the outcome of the CFR, which is a longer-term project and run separately.
The Commission will ensure that the parts of the research draft selected for the CFR – and possibly modified – are coherent with each other and with the future framework directive.
All this preparatory work will be carried out by all the Commission directorates-general involved, in close coordination."@en1
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