1 INTRODUCTORY
The proper name of the DCFR is "Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law." It is an academic initiative, the product of collaboration by distinguished private law scholars across Europe over a substantial period of time. Those authors have drawn on common approaches throughout Europe in order to frame the DCFR. 2 It is, in effect, the follow-up to the Principles of European Contract Law (" PECL"), 3 although in scope the DCFR is significantly more extensive. In particular, the DCFR integrates existing European measures of a consumer protection nature, absent from PECL. The DCFR is the product of collaboration by two separate bodies: the Study Group on a European Civil Code ("the Study Group") and the Research Group on EC Private Law ("the Acquis Group").