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9 Whereas, for intra-EU sales, there are some rules contained in Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees apply. This Directive will be repealed, inter alia , with effect from January 2022, by Directive (EU) 2019/771 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 on certain aspects of contracts for the sale of goods, amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 and Directive 2009/22/EC, and repealing Directive 1999/44/EC. The same, as stated in recital 1, aims to improve the functioning of the internal market and to respond to the multiple challenges posed today by an economy increasingly driven by technology and the web. The Digital Single Market Strategy sets out a comprehensive framework to facilitate the integration of the digital dimension into the internal market. The first pillar of the Digital Single Market Strategy addresses the fragmentation of intra-EU trade by addressing all major obstacles to the development of cross-border electro-technical trade, which accounts for the most significant share of cross-border sales of goods between businesses and consumers. The use of the international contract is useful to prevent disputes with international partners and to define in advance the "rules of the game" of both parties. Thus, international sales and trade in general are governed in many respects by the 1980 Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods. This clearly applies to countries that are parties to the Convention. The Convention facilitates international trade by laying down common rules which replace the rules of domestic law governing the contract of sale and which must be applied in the case of sales falling within the requirements of the Convention. It shall apply to the international sale of goods where the parties to the contract have their place of business in Contracting States (Article 1(1)(a)), or where the rules of private international law identify the law of a Contracting State as applicable to the contract (Article 1(1)(b)). The parties may nevertheless decide to exclude the application of the Convention or to derogate from its provisions by virtue of the principle of contractual autonomy (Article 6).