MATERIAL APPLICATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS

En el presente trabajo, el autor analiza el factor material que determina el campo de aplicación de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre Compraventa Internacional de Mercaderías de 1980. Para ello, se aborda lo que el concepto contrato de compraventa significa en la familia jurídica europeo continental a la que pertenece el derecho colombiano, estableciendo que en ella coexisten dos conceptos con significado propio. Con esta base, se profundiza en los conceptos compraventa, mercaderías, analizando las principales posturas doctrinales y de la jurisprudencia, sosteniendo que en la Convención se entiende que este contrato significa la transferencia del dominio de bienes corporales muebles a cambio de un precio. Igualmente, se analizan las posturas de algunos sectores de la doctrina y jurisprudencia tendientes a aplicar la Convención a otros contratos internacionales. In the present article, the author analyzes the objective factor determining the sphere of application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980). In doing so, the continental European juridical tradition meaning of the contract of sale, that Colombian law has accepted, and that establishes that in such tradition there are two coexisting concepts with their own meaning, is studied too. On that basis, the concepts of "sales," "goods" are studied in depth, analyzing thereby different legal scholars and jurisprudence positions, and arguing that in the Convention it is understood that this contract entails movable and tangible goods transfer of property in exchange for a price. As well, the positions of some legal scholars and jurisprudence variants which tend to apply the Convention to other international contracts are studied.