The article discusses the importance and scope of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna Convention) and its contribution to the unification of the Law of international sale of goods. Although it does not regulate all matters relating to international sale of goods, the Vienna Convention is undoubtedly the most frequently used source of law for contracts for the international sale of goods. Containing substantive rules to regulate this, the most common, legal operation in international business, the CISG, 30 years after being signed, confirms its successful implementation throughout the world.
The paper analyses parts of the Vienna Convention, as chapters of this article, through the prism of the views of leading international scientists, which were presented at the International Conference held at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in November 2010. The paper underlines current and outstanding issues regarding the application and interpretation of the CISG, and the solutions to these problems proposed by different authors. This article pays particular attention to issues of content and conclusion of the sales contracts, lack of conformity of delivered goods, and remedies for non-performance of the contract and the exclusion of contractual liability. In addition, the paper analyses the advantages and disadvantages of international conventions as a source of uniform rules governing contracts for the international sale of goods, as well as the relation of the Vienna Convention and other (especially newer) instruments of unification, which may be applied to regulate this most common legal operation in international business.U radu se razmatra značaj i domašaj Konvencije UN o ugovorima o međunarodnoj prodaji robe (Bečka konvencija), kao i njen doprinos unifikaciji prava međunarodne prodaje robe. Delovi Bečke konvencije su, kao poglavlja u ovom radu, razmatrani kroz prizmu stavova vodećih međunarodnih naučnika koji su izloženi na Međunarodnoj konferenciji održanoj na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu novembra 2010. godine. Ukazano je na aktuelna i otvorena pitanja u vezi sa primenom i tumačenjem Bečke konvencije, o kojima različiti autori daju svoja viđenja za rešavanje ovih problema. U radu je posebna pažnja posvećena pitanjima zaključenja i sadržine ugovora o prodaji, nesaobraznosti isporučene robe, kao i pravnim sredstvima za neizvršenje ugovora i isključenju ugovorne odgovornosti. Pored toga, razmatrane su prednosti i nedostaci međunarodnih konvencija kao izvora uniformnih pravila za regulisanje ugovora o međunarodnoj prodaji robe, kao i odnos Bečke konvencije i drugih (naročito novijih) instrumenata unifikacije, kojima se može regulisati ovaj najčešći posao u međunarodnom poslovanju
