{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-593/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-593/article-25.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/593",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-593",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Relationship with existing international conventions",
  "text": "1. This Regulation shall not prejudice the application of international conventions to which the United Kingdom was a party at the time when this Regulation was adopted and which lay down conflict-of-law rules relating to contractual obligations.\n2. However, this Regulation shall, as between relevant states, take precedence over conventions concluded exclusively between two or more of them in so far as such conventions concern matters governed by this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 25(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/834), regs. 1, 10(11)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 25(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/834), regs. 1, 10(11)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 25(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations and Non-Contractual Obligations (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/834), regs. 1, 10(11)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/593/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:12.759087+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}