26 Enforcement of performance

If one party fails to perform contractual obligations, the other should have an effective remedy. One of the main remedies under the DCFR is the right to enforce actual performance, whether the obligation which has not been performed is to pay money or is non-monetary, e. g. to do or to transfer something else. This basic idea is also expressed in the Principes directeurs.1. The DCFR slightly modifies and supplements this principle by some exceptions as the right to enforce performance should not apply in various cases in which literal performance is impossible or would be inappropriate.2. However, in a change from the PECL,3. under the DCFR the right to enforce performance is less of a ‘secondary’ remedy, reflecting the underlying principle that obligations should be performed unless there are good reasons to the contrary.