24 Co-operation

Contractual security is also enhanced by the imposition of an obligation to co-operate. The Principes directeurs put it this way: ‘The parties are bound to cooperate with each other when this is necessary for the performance of their contract’.1. The DCFR provision goes a little further than the case where co-operation is necessary: the debtor and the creditor are obliged to co-operate with each other when and to the extent that this can reasonably be expected for the performance of the debtor's obligation.2.