BACKGROUND AND METHODS OF UNIFICATION OF PRIVATE LAW FOUNDATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE OF ENERGY SOURCES OF BRICS

The article is devoted to legal methods and means of unification of legal regulation of foreign trade of energy sources of the countries belonging to the international integration association BRICS. It is concluded that in the development of international energy cooperation of BRICS Member States, priority objective of jurists is the creation of a common legal space. As for the trade of energy resources itself, the priority, first and foremost, must be given to the harmonization of national civil law, as a branch of law governing private legal relations with foreign element, which requires a method of harmonization of law. The author identifies and analyses the modern objective reality factors that complicate the process of forming a unified legal space of the foreign trade turnover of the energy resources of the BRICS. It has been established that existing agreements are in fact software acts establishing only the general direction of the development cooperation of the participating countries, and do not contain specific provisions on the regulation of the energy market. In this context, there is an obvious need for modernization of private law foundations of circulation of energy resources, first of all, the law applicable to the contract of sale. It is proved that the provisions of the Vienna Convention of 1980 are of the utmost importance for the BRICS Member States, which must be taken into account by national legislators in the process of convergence of the civil-legal regulation. The author concludes that the legal regulation of the sale of the BRICS countries can hardly be called a uniform, but the fact of participation in the Vienna Convention, a majority of the members of the Association and its application in those countries provide the necessary fundamentals of much-needed for the successful implementation of the trade of energy resources, a unified legal space integration inter-country Union. The author identifies uniform legislative approaches of countries-participants of the BRICS in the regulation of the conditions of recognition agreements (deals, agreements) associated with foreign trade circulation of energy resources that define them as prisoners (valid) and the reasons for their termination.

Intergovernmental Integration Association BRICS, foreign-economic activity, foreign trade activity, foreign trade transactions, unification of legal regulation, methods of unification of law, import of energy resources, the export of energy resources, contract of sale

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