Introduction
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused authorities all over the world
to take measures in an attempt to keep the spread of the virus
under control. Some of these measures have been in the form of laws
and regulations and other have been advice, recommendations and
guidelines for people and businesses.
As several countries both in Europe and elsewhere now are seeing
a rise in the numbers of infected, the authorities are implementing
new mitigation measures. As the pandemic is not likely to be over
anytime soon, it is critical that you review your existing
contracts as well as pay particular attention when entering into
new contracts, to how the contracts respond to delays and increased
costs caused by the pandemic or the measures implemented by the
authorities. Typical provisions in the offshore construction
contracts that are relevant in this context, are change in law
provisions and force majeure provisions. Here we shall in
particular focus on change in
