Mario Libertini

Faced with the widespread decline of the concept of consideration in recent positions and in new European and international trends of contracts, the author recommends the recovery of such concept focusing on the field of business contracts. Moreover, the author underlines the peculiarity of actions of entrepreneurial autonomy with respect to single free exchanges: the former represent the enacting of a wider activity and programme in a context where the social-economic function of the single action becomes relevant. This requires the continual need of an objective control on the reason of business contracts, a great example is in EU antitrust law, suggested by the author as the surfacing point of a more generalised principle of the discipline of single free trading actions. The article concludes by referring to the thought of Arturo Dalmartello in the field of business contracts.