The Principles of European Insurance Contract Law (PEICL) were published in September 2009 as result of ten years work of Insurance Group (“The Project Group on Restatement of European Insurance Contract Law“). Drafting PEICL began in 1999 as a stand-alone project, but in 2005 it has been transformed into a part of the “CoPECL Network of Excellence”, forming a specific part of Common Frame of Reference (CFR). The main characteristic of the CFR and PEICL is their non-binding nature. However, the possibility of adoption of these documents in a form of so called optional instrument of EC law has been expressed more than once in European Commission’s Action Plan in 2003 and Communication on European Contract Law in 2004. An optional instrument of European Contract Law can be defined as a legal act of EC law which application depends on a choice by the parties to the contract. Its main purpose is to provide the parties with an alternative regime of contract law. In this paper author examined the suitability of the PEICL as an optional instrument for European Insurance Contract Law.
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