Editing Sales (section)

==Law==
{{also|Sale of goods legislation}}
In [[common law]] countries, sales are governed generally by the common law and [[commercial code (law)|commercial code]]s. In the United States, the laws governing sales of goods are mostly uniform to the extent that most jurisdictions have [[Uniform Commercial Code adoption|adopted]] Article 2 of the [[Uniform Commercial Code]], albeit with some non-uniform variations.

The [[European Commission]] proposed adoption of a Common European Sales Law in 2011 and set out a proposed regulation on this area of law in 2014. Whilst remaining optional, the Commission's intention was to offer traders a means of breaking down barriers occasioned by the different legal systems of its (then) 28 [[Member state of the European Union|Member States]].<ref>[[Martine Reicherts|Reicherts, M.]], [https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_14_579 Reviving the European economy: How a common sales law will boost growth and job creation], speech delivered 5 September 2014, accessed 16 September 2023</ref>  A 2012 ''Communication'' from the Commission argued that a Common European Sales Law would help to address some of the concerns which it had identified in the development of a [[Cloud computing#Market|market for cloud computing services]].<ref>European Commission, [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0529:FIN:EN:PDF Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe], COM(2012) 529 final, pages 11-12, published 27 September 2012, accessed 17 June 2024</ref> However, the proposal was withdrawn in December 2014 when the Commission's work plan was rationalised.<ref>Király, M., [https://web.archive.org/web/20190706075032/https://eltelawjournal.hu/rise-fall-common-european-sales-law/ The Rise and Fall of Common European Sales Law], ELTE Law Journal, 2015 (2), accessed 16 September 2023</ref>