The Acquis Group

The Acquis Group texts result from a drafting process which involved individual Drafting Teams, the Redaction Committee, the Terminology Group, and the Plenary Meeting. The Drafting Teams produced a first draft of rules with comments for their topic or area on the basis of a survey of existing EC law. The drafts were then passed on to the Redaction Committee and to the Terminology Group which formulated proposals for making the various drafts by different teams dovetail with each other, also with a view towards harmonising the use of terminology and improving the language and consistency of drafts. All draft rules were debated several times at, and finally adopted by, Plenary Meetings of the Acquis Group, which convened twice a year. Several drafts which were adopted by Plenary Meetings (in particular those on pre-contractual information duties, unfair terms and withdrawal) were subsequently presented and discussed at CFR-net stakeholder meetings. Their comments were considered within a second cycle of drafting and consolidation of the Acquis Principles.

The following members of the Acquis Group took part in the Plenary Meetings: Professor Gianmaria Ajani (Torino, speaker), Professor Esther Arroyo i Amayuelas (Barcelona), Professor Carole Aubert de Vincelles (Lyon), Dr. Guillaume Busseuil (Paris), Dr. Simon Chardenoux (Paris), Professor Giuditta Cordero Moss (Oslo), Professor Gerhard Dannemann (Berlin), Professor Silvia Ferreri (Torino), Professor Lars Gorton (Lund), Professor Michele Graziadei (Torino), Professor Hans Christoph Grigoleit (Regensburg), Professor Luc Grynbaum (Paris), Professor Geraint Howells (Manchester), Professor Jan Hurdik (Brno), Professor Tsvetana Kamenova (Sofia), Professor Konstantinos Kerameus (Athens), Professor Stefan Leible (Bayreuth), Professor Eva Lindell-Frantz (Lund), Dr. hab. Piotr Machnikowski (Wroclaw), Professor Ulrich Magnus (Hamburg), Professor Peter Møgelvang-Hansen (Copenhagen), Professor Susana Navas Navarro (Barcelona), Dr. Paolisa Nebbia (Leicester), Professor Anders Ørgaard (Aalborg), Dr. Barbara Pasa (Torino), Professor Thomas Pfeiffer (Heidelberg), Professor António Pinto Monteiro (Coimbra), Professor Jerzy Pisulinski (Kraków), Professor Elise Poillot (Lyon), Professor Judith Rochfeld (Paris), Professor Ewa Rott-Pietrzyk (Katowice), Professor Søren Sandfeld Jakobsen (Copenhagen), Dr. Markéta Selucká (Brno), Professor Hans Schulte-Nölke (Osnabrück, co-ordinator), Professor Reiner Schulze (Münster), Professor Carla Sieburgh (Nijmegen), Dr. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon (Florence), Professor Matthias Storme (Antwerp and Leuven), Professor Gert Straetmans (Antwerp), Dr. hab. Maciej Szpunar (Katowice), Professor Evelyne Terryn (Leuven), Dr. Christian Twigg-Flesner (Hull), Professor Antoni Vaquer Aloy (Lleida), Professor Thomas Wilhelmsson (Helsinki), Professor Fryderyk Zoll (Kraków).

The members of the Redaction Committee were, besides the speaker (Gianmaria Ajani) and the co-ordinator (Hans Schulte-Nölke) of the Acquis Group, Gerhard Dannemann (chair), Luc Grynbaum, Reiner Schulze, Matthias Storme, Christian Twigg-Flesner and Fryderyk Zoll. The Terminology Group consisted of Gerhard Dannemann (Chair), Silvia Ferreri and Michele Graziadei.

Members of the individual Acquis Group Drafting Teams are: ‘Contract I’ (originally organised in the subteams Definition of Consumer and Business, Form, Good Faith, Pre-contractual Information Duties, Formation, Withdrawal, Non-negotiated Terms): Esther Arroyo i Amayuelas, Christoph Grigoleit, Peter Møgelvang-Hansen, Barbara Pasa, Thomas Pfeiffer, Hans Schulte-Nölke, Reiner Schulze, Evelyne Terryn, Christian Tuiigg-Flesner, Antoni Vaquer Aloy; ‘Contract II’ (responsible for Performance, Non-Performance, Remedies): Carole Aubert de Vincelles, Piotr Machnikowski, Ulrich Magnus, Jerzy Pisulitski, Judith Rochfeld, Ewa Rott-Pietrzyk, Reiner Schulze, Matthias Storme, Maciej Szpunar, Fryderyk Zoll; ‘E-Commerce’: Stefan Leible, Jerzy Pisulinski, Fryderyk Zoll; ‘Non-discrimination’: Stefan Leible, Susana Navas Navarro, Jerzy Pisulinski, Fryderyk Zoll; ‘Specific Performance’: Lars Gorton, Geraint Howells. Numerous further colleagues supported the Plenary and the Drafting Teams or contributed to the Comments, among them Dr. Christoph Busch, Dr. Martin Ebers, Dr. Krzysztof Korus, Professor Matthias Lehmann and Dr. Filip Wejman.