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Özet
Over recent decades, international trade has become more intense than ever. The invention of new means of communication technology has made it easier and faster for people from different corners of the world to conclude contracts with each other. Where buyer and seller have their places of business in different countries, it is generally not obvious which legal regime applies to the contract between the parties. The consequence of legal uncertainty is self-evident. Additionally, it is quite likely that the law the contract is eventually governed by will be unfamiliar to at least one of the parties. This party is likely to incur extra costs from conducting business under an unfamiliar set of rules and from obtaining legal advice on these. All this is bound to increase the risks involved in international business and to decrease its efficiency. The only real solution to this problem is a unified substantive regime that applies everywhere. Accordingly, numerous efforts have been made over many decades to achieve an international unification of certain areas of the law which are relevant to international trade. The Vienna Sales Convention represents a great step into the direction of legal certainty and towards the rationalisation and an increase in the efficiency of international business. It has surpassed the expectations of those who were involved in the drafting of the Convention. The States that have now ratified the Convention participate in 60% of the World's external trade. This tremendous acceptance of the Vienna Sales Convention almost forces other states to become members to the Convention if they do not want to be put at a disadvantage as far as their external trade relations are concerned. While the Vienna Sales Convention has a binding nature the UNIDROITPrinciples for International Commercial Contracts and the Principles of European Contract Law represent a new approach to the harmonization of laws. Both instruments are the products of international expert groups that have started from a traditional comparison of national laws in order to draft rules and principles that might be accepted worldwide. Here we aim to reflect the above mentioned approaches and deal with the remedies they have put forward.