Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of the Law in Trials of Foreign-related Civil and Commercial Contract Disputes

关于审理涉外民事或商事合同纠纷案件法律适用若干问题的规定

This Provisions aims to further clarify the issue on the conflict of laws for foreign-related civil and commercial contract disputes and recognizes the parties' expressed choice of laws.

(Promulgated by the Supreme People's Court on July 23 2007 and effective as of August 8 2007.)

SPC Interpretation [2007] No.14

These Provisions have been formulated pursuant to the relevant provisions of the PRC General Principles for Civil Law, the PRC Contract Law, etc., in order to correctly try foreign-related civil and commercial disputes and accurately apply the law.

(最高人民法院于二零零七年七月二十三日公布，自二零零七年八月八日起施行。) 

Article 1: The law applicable to foreign-related civil and commercial contracts refers to the substantive law of the relevant country or region, exclusive of the conflict of laws and procedural law.

法释 [2007] 14号

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