ABBREVIATIONS USED IN this report
CBI	Confederation of British Industry	
Chitty	Chitty on Contracts (29th ed 2004)	
CISG	United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna, 1980)	
COMBAR	Commercial Bar Association	
Consultation Paper	The Law Commissions’ 2002 Joint Consultation Paper, Unfair Terms in Contracts (Law Commission Consultation Paper No 166, Scottish Law Commission Discussion Paper No 119)	
Directive	Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts, 1993 OJ L 95	
DTI	Department of Trade and Industry	
ECJ	European Court of Justice	
First Report	The Law Commissions’ 1969 Report: Exemption Clauses in Contracts, First Report: Amendments to the Sale of Goods Act 1893 (Law Com No 24; Scot Law Com No 12)	
FSA	Financial Services Authority	
Indicative List	Indicative and non-exhaustive list of terms which may be regarded as unfair, contained in the Annex to the Directive and in the UTCCR Schedule 2	
OFGEM	Office of Gas and Electricity Markets	
OFT	Office of Fair Trading	
OFTEL	Office of Telecommunications (now subsumed by OFCOM, the Office of Communications, pursuant to the Communications Act 2003)	
Rome Convention	The EC Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (Rome, 1980)	
SCGD	Directive 99/44/EC of 25 May 1999 on Certain Aspects of the Sale of Consumer Goods and Associated Guarantees, 1999 OJ L 171 12-16	
Second Report	The Law Commissions’ 1975 Report: Exemption Clauses: Second Report (Law Com No 69; Scot Law Com No 39)	
SMEs	Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises	
SPVs	Special Purpose Vehicles	
SSGCR	Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002, SI 2002 No 3045	
UCTA	Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977	
ULIS	Uniform Law on International Sales (The Hague, 1964)	
UTCCR	Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, SI 1999 No 2083