CONTRACT AGREEMENT: HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERIODS OF FORMATION, DEVELOPMENT AND CURRENT STATE
The presented publication briefly examines the historical and legal aspects of the formation and development of one of the economic relations' important elements - a contract agreement. The article provides provisions characteristic of the relevant regulatory legal acts of different eras and, to a certain extent, reflects the current state of affairs. Also, attention is paid to the near-term prospects for the development of agreements of this kind. So, according to the authors, the contract agreement must be perceived as a developing institution despite its centuries-old history, since in the conditions of international economic and other relations, it is organically introduced into it types of agreements widely known abroad, such typical Anglo-Saxon law proformas as FIDIC, EPC, EPCM, EPCS. However, at the moment, the role of a foreign legal instrument is not reflected in the current regulatory legal acts. At the same time, these issues should attract the creative attention of the Russian legislator in order to consolidate their qualitative elements in the domestic system. This will avoid the expansion of controversial situations and other negative phenomena