7 Restrictions on freedom to choose contracting party

While in general persons should remain free to contract or to refuse to contract with anyone else, this freedom may need to be qualified where it might result in unacceptable discrimination, for example discrimination on the grounds of gender, race or ethnic origin. Discrimination on those grounds is a particularly anti-social form of denying the contractual freedom, and indeed the human dignity, of the other party. EU law and the DCFR therefore prohibit these forms of discrimination and provide appropriate remedies.1. The DCFR is drafted in such a way that it easily allows the addition of further grounds for discrimination, as they exist — for general contract law — in some Member States and as they may be enacted in EC law in the future.