国际电子合同法的统一——《国际合同使用电子通信公约》评析  

The Unification of International Electronic-contracts Law——Review about the Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts

作　　者：曾冠[1] 

机构地区：[1]武汉大学国际法研究所,湖北武汉430072

出　　处：《政法论丛》2007年第1期81-86,共6页Journal of Political Science and Law

摘　　要：作为第一个电子商务领域的全球性国际公约,联合国《国际合同使用电子通信公约》以《国际货物买卖合同公约》为程序模本,以《电子商务示范法》为实体模本,解决了如何确定一方当事人在电子环境中的所在地、电子通信的收发时间和地点、使用自动信息系统订立合同、确立电子通信和纸面文件以及电子认证方法和手写签名功能等同的标准与条件等重要问题,增强了国际合同使用电子通信情形的法律确定性和商业可预见性,弥补了《国际货物买卖合同公约》的不足,体现了国际贸易法的发展。As the first globally international convention in E- commerce, the Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts（CUECIC）, have many substantive legal rules arc based on The Model Law on Electronic Commerce （MLEC）, and closely resembles the structure of The Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods（CISG） in the procedural framework, and it addresses such important issues as the determination of a party＇ s location in an electronic environment; the time and place of dispatch and receipt of electronic communications; the use of automated message systems for contract formation; and the criteria to be used for establishing functional equivalence between electronic communications and paper documents including ＂original＂ paper documents as well as between electronic authentication methods and hand - written signatures, and so on. The Convention aims to enhance legal certainty and commercial predictability where electronic communications are used in relation to international contracts, supplements the shortage of CISG, indicates the developing of the international trade law.

关 键 词：电子通信 电子商务 电子合同 

分 类 号：D913[政治法律—民商法学]