Legal nature and practice of application of the Vienna convention in the regulation of international contractual relations

Abstract

The procedure for concluding an agreement has come a long way of evolution from a strictly formalized process to concluding an agreement using computer networks. Currently, almost all legal systems regulate the main stages of the pre-contractual process - the direction of the offer, its analysis and acceptance to the addressees, as well as the conclusion of the contract during the negotiation process. However, the intensity of such regulation and the range of regulated relations differ in each legal family and even in states belonging to the same legal family (for example, Great Britain and the United States). The process of negotiations between the parties during the conclusion of an agreement remained the least regulated, although attempts to regulate some elements of the negotiation process are observed in almost all legal systems (for example, the establishment of pre-contractual responsibility, the legal status of pre-contractual relations). For this reason, it is of particular interest to analyze the UN Vienna Convention.