Dispositives Recht und Rechtswahlfreiheit als Ausnahmebereiche der EG-Grundfreiheiten

The parties to a contract cannot avoid the obstacles in free trade involving products, services, corporations and capital in the single market merely by choosing the applicable law or the applicable non-mandatory provisions. Creating exceptions to the application of EC basic market freedoms does not take the parties' costs and informational deficits during negotiations into consideration. The freedom of choice of the applicable law is limited, as it cannot set aside obstacles in the single market in every case, whereas the non-mandatory rules have an equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions.