areas in which international influence has affected the Danish legal position. During the recent decades the latter areas have increased in importance. Their frequent occurrence means that the foreign reader is likely to come across treatments of rules or sets of rules which are identical, in part or in full, with the rules in force in his/her country. The most conspicious example of this nature is of course the comprehensive on-going process of making uniform laws in selected areas in a number of Western-European countries resulting from the cooperation within the European Communities.

But also outside this special European cooperation Denmark has long participated, in the interests of international trade, in providing uniform national rules in important areas.