Vasilchenko, A.I. Energy service contract as a legal instrument for the implementation of energy saving activity

Abstract: The object of studies involves social relations regulated by the energy service relations, which is one of the main instruments for the implementation of energy saving activities. The author provides analysis of the normative acts in the sphere of energy saving and improvement of energy efficiency, legal practice and doctrinal provisions in this sphere. The goal of the article is to provide a complex analysis of legal relations appearing in relation to the energy service contract. The author studies the legal nature of the energy service contract, defining its direction and its place within the system of civil law contracts. The article involves general scientific and special legal methods of studies, such as systemic, logical, dialectic, historical, structural-functional, formal legal, comparative legal, legal modeling, observation and description, document analysis and other methods of legal cognition. The article offers to regard energy service contract as being a type of service contract provided for by law. The contracts, when the parties aim to achieve redistribution of risks in addition to energy economy, should also be recognized. As for the energy service contracts, one should apply to them both the special norms (as provided for by the Federal Law “On Energy Saving and Higher Energy Efficiency”) and the general provisions on provision of paid services under Chapter 39 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, provisions on contracting (within the limits of Art. 783 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation) as well as the general norms of contract law.

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