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"Mr President, the Commission as a whole welcomes wholeheartedly the interest that Parliament is taking in the Common Framework of Reference, or, as I will refer to it in short, the CFR. The CFR is a long-term project to improve the quality and coherence of EU legislation.
Once the Commission CFR is completed, the Commission will decide on the need for keeping it up to date and on the best possible mechanism to do this.
I would like to conclude by thanking you for Parliament’s support for the Commission work on this important dossier.
Let me answer your questions in this connection. First of all, I would like to say that the Commission indeed intends to ensure that the Commission CFR will be translated so that it can be discussed and applied in order to improve the quality of EU contract law legislation and to make it more coherent.
However, this reasoning does not apply to the academic preliminary draft. The Commission CFR will most probably be considerably shorter than the academic draft. Given the huge work which will already be necessary to translate the CFR, it does not make sense to spend valuable translation resources to translate parts of an academic draft which are not relevant for the purposes of the CFR.
The Commission is currently proceeding to select those parts of the academic CFR which are relevant for the final Commission CFR, on the basis of its policy objectives. All the DGs concerned are involved in this selection process according to their field of competence, of course including DG JHA. The final selection will be presented for consultation to the other institutions, including Parliament and stakeholders.
The Commission will indeed ensure that the outcome of the workshops which were organised in 2007 will be taken into account in the CFR.
The Commission has always conceived the CFR as a tool for better law-making. The CFR should contain a set of definitions, general principles and model rules in the field of contract law. The Commission has not yet decided which topics of contract law the CFR should cover.
In adopting the decision on CFR, the Commission will take into account the position of Parliament and the Council.
As I have already mentioned, the Commission will in all likelihood shorten the present academic draft and it will probably be necessary to amend the remaining text in order to make it useful for policy-making purposes. Even if it is premature to say so, it is likely that the CFR should form a non-binding legislative tool.
The Commission understands fully 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 and we very much rely on this involvement. 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, and will consult Parliament and all stakeholders on the results of its preliminary selection process."@en1
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