2 Revision of the interim outline edition

A year ago, the DCFR was published for the first time in an interim outline edition.2. This edition is a revision in three main ways. First, the interim edition did not contain model rules in Book IV on loan contracts and contracts for donation, nor in Books VIII to X on acquisition and loss of ownership of goods, on proprietary security rights in movable assets, and on trusts. They have now been included. Secondly, one of the purposes of publishing an interim edition was to provide an opportunity for interested parties to comment on the draft and make suggestions for improvement. The public discussion of the interim outline edition prompted the research groups to revise at various places the text which had already been published. The research groups are grateful to all who have taken part in that critical evaluation, whether in publications, at conferences or in personal correspondence, and who have contributed to the improvement of the text. Naturally, not all the suggestions we received have been acted upon: some, for example, advocated solutions which had already been rejected after full discussion by the Study Group or the Acquis Group. But many suggestions for improvement have been gratefully adopted. Further revisions resulted from our own further reflections and discussions, the results of the research conducted by the evaluative teams in the network and the conclusions which we drew from the process of translating the first three Books into French.3. That applies in particular to Books I–III, but is not confined to them. (For more details, see paras 26–33). Thirdly, this revised edition contains an additional self-contained section in which we set out four underlying principles underpinning the DCFR. This draws on the Principes directeurs du droit Européen du contrat, the subject-matter of an independent research project, which published its output in 2008.4. The conclusions of the economic impact group, which analysed particular rules of the DCFR from an economic perspective, were also made available to us.