ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS REPORT
CBI | Confederation of British Industry |
Chitty | Chitty on Contracts (29th ed 2004) |
CISG | United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 1980) |
COMBAR | Commercial Bar Association |
Consultation Paper | The Law Commissions' 2002 Joint Consultation Paper, Unfair Terms in Contracts (Law Commission Consultation Paper No 166, Scottish Law Commission Discussion Paper No 119) |
Directive | Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts, 1993 OJ L 95 |
DTI | Department of Trade and Industry |
ECJ | European Court of Justice |
First Report | The Law Commissions' 1969 Report: Exemption Clauses in Contracts, First Report: Amendments to the Sale of Goods Act 1893 (Law Com No 24; Scot Law Com No 12) |
FSA | Financial Services Authority |
Indicative List | Indicative and non-exhaustive list of terms which may be regarded as unfair, contained in the Annex to the Directive and in the UTCCR Schedule 2 |
OFGEM | Office of Gas and Electricity Markets |
OFT | Office of Fair Trading |
OFTEL | Office of Telecommunications (now subsumed by OFCOM, the Office of Communications, pursuant to the Communications Act 2003) |
Rome Convention | The EC Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Rome, 1980) |
SCGD | Directive 99/44/EC of 25 May 1999 on Certain Aspects of the Sale of Consumer Goods and Associated Guarantees, 1999 OJ L 171 12-16 |
Second Report | The Law Commissions' 1975 Report: Exemption Clauses: Second Report (Law Com No 69; Scot Law Com No 39) |
SMEs | Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises |
SPVs | Special Purpose Vehicles |
SSGCR | Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002, SI 2002 No 3045 |
UCTA | Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 |
ULIS | Uniform Law on International Sales (The Hague, 1964) |
UTCCR | Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, SI 1999 No 2083 |