Standard form contract

Terms and Conditions (abbreviated AGB) are all pre-formulated for a variety of contracts contract terms that where a Party ( the user ) to the other Party at the conclusion of a contract.

Legal regulation in Europe

Originally developed in the German AGB- law rules to the Terms and Conditions were adopted as Directive 93/13/EEC largely to European Community law. This Directive obliges Member States to adopt certain legal standards that protect consumers against unfair standard terms. In all EU countries, one may therefore expect as a consumer so that similar ( though not identical! ), There are restrictions for entrepreneurs as a user of Conditions in principle, as in Germany. A new EU - regulation, which should lead to a complete unification of the AGB- law (so-called maximum harmonization ), is currently being prepared.

Switzerland has decided in principle comparable with the European regulatory solution on 17 June 2011, after decades of dispute in legal doctrine and policy. Article 8 of the Federal Law against Unfair Competition ( UWG) has been revised accordingly.

Legal situation in individual countries

The legal situation in individual countries see

• Terms and Conditions ( Germany )
• Terms and Conditions ( Austria )