PRE-PRINT: Agri-Food Biotechnologies Regulation: a comparative perspective

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PRE-PRINT: From the black swan, to the snowball…

Instant paper for Senegal

Komlavi Agbam

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Table of contents
I. Overall Framework: New code of civil and commercial obligations
1. The Externality
2. The unpredictability
3. The insurmountability
II. Specific framework
III. Some cases that can be invoked in Senegalese Law

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Law of Contracts in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic: Polish Report

Radosław Strugała

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As the world struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic, the debtors try to perform their contractual obligations despite the hardship it brings about. In the meantime contract lawyers are focused on trying and finding remedies that would help face the new circumstances. The remedies that enable the parties either to modify the contract or to bring it to an end seem the most apt solution in the context of current pandemic. Having said that, two provisions of the Polish Civil Code are to be considered, namely article 475 (read in conjunction with the article 495) and 3571. (…)

 

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Relevance of Contract Law Solutions Under a Pandemic

Reza Moradinejad

 

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Table of contents
1. Force Majeure: A Plausible Solution
1.1. Characteristics of Force Majeure
1.2. Effects of Force Majeure
2. Revision of Contract for Imprévision: An Impossible Solution
2.1. Imprévision under the Civil Code of Lower Canada
2.2. Evolution of Quebec Contract Law: More Place for Equity
2.3. Civil Law Reform Project
2.4. Imprévision Under the Civil Code of Quebec
3. Duty of Good Faith: A Marginal Solution
3.1. The relational Contract Theory in Quebec Law
3.2. Scope of Obligation of Cooperation in Relational Contracts
4. Extraordinary Governmental Programs: An Out-of-the-Box Solution
5. Conclusion

 

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Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on contractual relationships: the case of Estonia

Karin Sein-Kai Härmand

 

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1. General contract law rules: restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic as force
majeure
2. Adaptation or termination of contracts due to Covid-19 pandemic under the doctrine
of change of circumstances
3. Regulatory allocation of risks for specific contract types
4. New regulatory provisions due to the pandemic crisis?
5. Contractual clauses used in practice and their impact on contractual allocation
of risks

 

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The Impact of Covid-19 in Chilean Contract Law

Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, Alberto Pino Emhart

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I. Introduction
II. Administrative regulations enacted to deal with the crisis
1. Consumer contracts and SERNAC’s directives
2. Consumer credits and CMF’s directives
3. Construction contracts with the State
4. CGR and contracts with the State. Dictamen No. 6854-20
5. Chile Compra and contracts with the State
III. General contract law
1. The Chilean Civil Code. A strong recognition of pacta sunt servanda
2. Force majeure
3. Change of circumstances (teoría de la imprevisión)
3.1. Legal doctrine
3.2. Case law
3.3. Perspectives

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The Impact of the Health Emergency on Contract Law: National Report Peru

Daniel Ugarte Mostajo, Raúl F. Zúñiga

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I. Peruvian contract law provisions dealing with circumstances interfering with contractual
performance
1. General framework
2. Impossibility of performance due to unforeseen circumstances or force majeure
3. Excessive onerousness of the performance or hardship
4. The disputed application of the frustration of purpose
II. Application of the provisions to certain contracts
1. Construction contracts
2. Contracts for the provision of educational services
3. Lease contracts

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An overview of the colombian contract law, in times of the Covid-19 pandemic

Isué Natalia Vargas Brand

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This paper notes the potential contract law rules applicable in the Colombian legal system to contracts affected by the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Also, it points out the different temporary Decrees enacted by the Colombian government to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in Contract Law.

KEYWORDS

Covid-19; contracts; nonperformance; Impossibility prevision; Hardship; Force majeure; Unforeseeable circumstances; Frustration; Breach of contract; Lease contracts; Home loans; Tourist contracts

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