Poduzova Ekaterina Borisovna Framework contract in modern civil law

Abstract: The article is devoted to the definition, characteristic features and contents of the framework contract. The author analyzes the approaches of various scholars on these legal issues, and she also provides her position on definition and characteristic features of framework contract. The framework contract is a contract under which the parties agree to conclude the main contract (or several such contracts) in the future, and it should contain the clause on the term of its application, object of the main contract (contracts), some other conditions of the main contract (contracts). The essential conditions of the framework (organization) contract should include the clauses on its term of application, its object, and the object of the main contract (contracts). The author studies the correlation between the framework contract and the open-clause contract in the legislation and science of the Great Britain and the USA. The author then comes to a conclusion on the need to distinguish these lecgal constructions, when they are provided for in the Russian legislation.

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