Common use of Preliminary Remarks Clause in Contracts

Preliminary Remarks. Next to the drafting elements examined above, factors which are not based on semantic choices have also limited the ability of the Conventions to fully deploy and realize their aim of uniformity from the time of their signing. The Conventions, singular in their nature of being international public instruments regulating private law relations, face typical international public law limits, such as reservations and declarations, while, at the same time, are deprived of the possibility that their uniform application could be ensured by a single common Court or by clear specific interpretation mechanisms.