EXECUTORY CONTRACT UPON REQUEST (SUBSCRIBER’S AGREEMENT): SOME ASPECTS OF CIVIL LAW REGULATION

Recently, the legislator has fixed a contractual structure, which is common in everyday life now. It is called a Subscriber’s Agreement (Art. 429.4 of the Civil Code). Nowadays it is hard to imagine a man, who is not a subscriber. This contract can be universally applied to many other contracts, such as a technical support contract, a computer maintenance contract, a provision of legal services contract, mobile services (mobile) communication contract, a satellite television and the Internet contract, a medical services contract, etc. A lease agreement can also be made at any time with the condition of the subscription fee in case the subscriber needs a room (ex. a conference room). One of the significant features of the executory contract upon request is the subscriber's obligation to make payments or provide other performance according to the subscriber’s agreement regardless of whether the request has been made or not. This contractual provision is in paragraph 2 of Art. 429.4 Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Consequently, the subscriber does not pay for the services but for the provision of an opportunity to require performance of the agreement at any time of the period. In turn, the counterparty is obliged to provide execution of subscriber’s needs specified by the agreement to the extent and the amount that will need the latter. That is, the executor, when signs a Subscriber’s Agreement, undertakes responsibility to hire a staff of lawyers under the Contract of Legal Services, and provide it for services in the gym, etc. The monthly fee compensates the cost for all these services. If the subscriber does not request for the guaranteed services, the money, paid according to the contract, will not be returned as it repays the executor’s readiness to serve; this readiness has to be paid. The monthly fee does not depend on the number of services that a subscriber may require from the counterparty; it remains fixed. This feature of the executory contract upon request should be considered when making a contract

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