The Legal Nature of a Framework Agreement

Abstract

The article describes essential characteristics of a framework agreement. The author substantiates inadmissibility of considering the legal phenomenon in question as a quasi-agreement. The framework agreement is considered as an independent specific contractual construction. The author analyzes the balance between organizational and organized relations with respect to the subject matter of the framework agreement. Based on the results of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the specific goal of framework agreements is to create a system of stable legal relations, general rules of the game, which subsequently govern mutual relations between the parties. In its turn, the subject matter of framework agreements includes actions of the parties aimed at determining the general conditions for the emergence, modification and execution of individual obligations in a certain field of activity. In addition, the article scrutinizes the structure of contractual relations in framework contracts, as well as the specific nature of the contracts being organized.