New: When the fulfilment of a contract becomes excessively costly for one of the parties due to an unpredictable change of circumstances, the party affected may request a judge to review or terminate the contract.

The order of 10 February 2016 to reform contract law introduces a new mechanism for reviewing contracts into the Civil Code (new article 1195). This will apply to contracts concluded from 1 October 2016.

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