Uniform law in the matter of international sales

Recommendation 220 (1959)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly Debate on 18th September 1959 (21st Sitting) (see Doc. 1022, Report of the Legal Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 18th September 1959 (21st Sitting).

The Assembly,

Considering that national legislations on the sale of goods differ widely ;

Considering that this state of affairs is prejudicial to the development of trade between European countries ;

Considering that concerted action in this field has become more urgent by reason of the creation of the Common Market, the agreement, in principle, to set up a Free Trade Area between the Outer Seven and the possible creation of a wider Economic Association ;

Realising, accordingly, the need for a uniform law in this field ;

Having noted the content of the Report of the Legal Committee (Doc, 1022),

Recommends that the Committee of Ministers :

1 invite Member Governments which have not yet done so to forward to the Netherlands Government their comments on the draft Uniform Law in the matter of international sales prepared in 1956 by a Special Committee, under the chairmanship of M. Pilotti, and communicated to them by the Netherlands Government in the course of the same year ;

2 invite the Netherlands Government to convene as soon as possible, at The Hague, a diplomatic conference of all member States and non-member States interested, to prepare, on the basis of the Pilotti Committee's draft, the final text of a Convention embodying a uniform law in the matter of international sales and to open it to signature by Governments ;

3 inform the Assembly at the opening of its twelfth Session of the action taken on this Recommendation.