00716nam a2200085Ia 4500100001900000245009700019260000900116520048600125583001900611 aWOLKER, Ulrich aContinuity of contracts in the transition to the third stage of economic and monetary union. c1996 aDiscusses what happens to existing contracts, expressed either in the currency of a participating Member State or in ECU, once the Community enters into the third stage of economic and monetary union. Shows that some aspects of the problem have already been dealth with directly by the EC Treaty itself and that for the rest, the continuity of contracts is, in principle, assured by the conditions under which the third stage of the economic and monetary union will be introduced. c3/7/00kM2LMGR