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Rome I Regulation In force since 17 December 2009

Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I)
32008R0593 · official text on EUR-Lex

Articles

Chapter I SCOPE

• Article 1 — Material scope
• Article 2 — Universal application

Chapter II UNIFORM RULES

• Article 3 — Freedom of choice
• Article 4 — Applicable law in the absence of choice
• Article 5 — Contracts of carriage
• Article 6 — Consumer contracts
• Article 7 — Insurance contracts
• Article 8 — Individual employment contracts
• Article 9 — Overriding mandatory provisions
• Article 10 — Consent and material validity
• Article 11 — Formal validity
• Article 12 — Scope of the law applicable
• Article 13 — Incapacity
• Article 14 — Voluntary assignment and contractual subrogation
• Article 15 — Legal subrogation
• Article 16 — Multiple liability
• Article 17 — Set-off
• Article 18 — Burden of proof

Chapter III OTHER PROVISIONS

• Article 19 — Habitual residence
• Article 20 — Exclusion of renvoi
• Article 21 — Public policy of the forum
• Article 22 — States with more than one legal system
• Article 23 — Relationship with other provisions of Community law
• Article 24 — Relationship with the Rome Convention
• Article 25 — Relationship with existing international conventions
• Article 26 — List of Conventions
• Article 27 — Review clause
• Article 28 — Application in time

Chapter IV FINAL PROVISIONS

• Article 29 — Entry into force and application