The Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations 1980 (the "Rome Convention") is a measure in private international law or conflict of laws which aims to create at least a harmonised, if not a unified, choice of law system in contracts within the European Union. It was signed in Rome, Italy on 19 June 1980.
It has now been replaced by the Rome I Regulation 593/2008.
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