52 Input from stakeholders

Other changes in PECL articles resulted from the input from stakeholders to the workshops held by the European Commission on selected topics. For example, the rules on representation were changed in several significant respects for this reason, as were the rules on pre-contractual statements forming part of a contract, the rules on variation by a court of contractual rights and obligations on a change of circumstances and the rules on so-called ‘implied terms’ of a contract. Sometimes even the process of preparing for stakeholder meetings which did not, in the end, take place led to proposals for changes in PECL which were eventually adopted. This was the case, for example, with the chapter on plurality of debtors and creditors, where academic criticism on one or two specific points also played a role.