| Conditions of Supply and Payment
I. Tender and Conclusion
of Contract
The order will not be regarded as accepted until it has been confirmed
by the supplier in writing; up to then, the order will not be regarded
as binding. Telegram, telephone or verbal additions, amendments
or secondary agreements will also require the written confirmation
of the supplier to be effective.
II. Price and Payment
1. Prices ex factory will apply. For lickerins and rollers, both
shipments and parcel freight will be charged to the customer.
2. If there are no special agreements, payment is to be made within
10 days with 2 % discount or within 30 days net (wage-labour without
discount), ex paying agent of the supplier. In the case that the
period is exceeded, interest for late payment will be calculated
at 1 % above the central bank discount. Withholding, failure to
pay or setting off because of any disputed counterclaims of the
customer will not be permissible.
III. Delivery Time
1. The delivery period will begin with the despatch of order confirmation,
but not before the provision of the documents, authorizations and
clearances to be acquired by the customer or before the receipt
of an agreed down payment in certain circumstances.
2. The delivery period will be met if the subject of the delivery
has left the factory or readiness to despatch has been notified
before its expiry.
3. The delivery period will be extended appropriately in the case
of measures within the framework of employment disputes and the
occurrence of unpredicted events that lie outside the intention
of the supplier. Liquidated damages for delayed supply will require
a special written agreement. The customer will not have any claim
to compensation or the cancellation of the contract because of delayed
delivery.
IV. Transition of Danger
1. In the case of carriage free delivery, the danger will pass to
the customer, also in the case of partial deliveries, even if the
supplier has taken over other services, e.g. dispatch costs or if
there is an installation order for the subject of the delivery.
Special requirements with regard to despatch and insurance are to
be notified in good time. Insurance policies against damage of any
kind will be charged to the customer, even if they have been taken
out by the supplier on the instructions of the customer.
2. If dispatch is delayed
as a consequence of circumstances for which the supplier is not
responsible, the danger will pass to the customer from the day of
the readiness to despatch; however, the supplier will be obliged
to bring into effect the insurance that the customer requires and
to store the goods at the request of the customer and at its cost.
V. Reservation of Title
1. The goods will remain the property of the vendor until the complete
payment of all claims, including subsidiary claims, claims for damages
and the cashing of cheques and bills of exchange.
2. The reservation of title will even continue to exist if individual
claims of the vendor are taken into a revolving account and the
accounts are cast and accepted.
3. If reserved goods are processed into a new moveable object by
the purchaser, the processing will take place for the vendor without
the vendor being committed by this. The new object will become the
property of the vendor. In the case of processing, blending or mixing
with goods that do not belong to the vendor, the vendor will acquire
a share in the ownership of the new object according to the relationship
of the value of its reserved goods to the total value.
4. The purchaser will only be entitled to further disposal or to
install the reserved goods taking the following terms into account
and with the measure that the claims in accordance with sub-section
6 also actually pass to the vendor:
5. The authorities
of the purchaser to sell reserved goods in commercial transactions
in accordance with regulations or to process or install them, will
end with the revocation by the vendor as a consequence of a lasting
deterioration in the financial position of the purchaser, but at
its suspension of payments or at the application for or opening
of bankruptcy or composition proceedings concerning its property
at the latest.
6.a) The purchaser will hereby cede the claim to the vendor with
all subsidiary rights arising from the further sale of the reserved
goods.
b) If the goods have been agreed, blended or mixed and if the vendor
has obtained a share in the property at the level of the value of
its invoice, it will be entitled to the claim to the purchase price
proportionately to the value of its right to the goods.
c) If reserved goods are installed in a plot by the purchaser, the
purchaser will already transfer the claim arising from it then at
remuneration at a level of the value of the reserved goods with
all subsidiary rights, including that to the granting of a claim-securing
mortgage with a status above the rest.
If the purchaser has sold the claim within the framework of a genuine
credit factoring, it will cede the claim to the credit replacing
it to the vendor. The vendor will accept the transfer.
7. As long as the purchaser complies with its obligations to pay,
it will be entitled to collect the transferred ?? claims. The entitlement
to collect them will cease at revocation, but in the case of delayed
payment by the purchaser or a significant deterioration in the financial
circumstances of the purchaser at the latest. In this case, the
vendor will be given the power of attorney by the purchaser to inform
the buyer about the transfer and to collect the claims itself.
The purchaser will be obliged to hand over a precise list of buyers,
the level of the individual claims, invoice date, etc. to the vendor
on request and to collect everything for the vendor for the assertion
of the claims transferred.
The authorization to collect will cease at revocation, but in the
case of delayed payment by the purchaser or in the case of a significant
deterioration of the financial circumstances of the purchaser at
the latest. In this case, the vendor will be given power of attorney
by the purchaser to inform the buyer of the transfer and to collect
the claim itself. The purchaser will be obliged to hand over a precise
list of the claims to which the purchaser is entitled with the name
and address of the buyer, the level of the individual claims, invoice
date, etc. to the vendor on request and to give the vendor all the
information necessary to assert the transferred claims and to permit
this information to be examined.
8. If the total value of the security existing for the vendor exceeds
its claims by more than 20 %, the vendor will be obliged to release
securities according to the preference of the purchaser on the request
of the purchaser or a third party disadvantaged through the over-securing
to this extent.
9. Mortgaging or assignment of security of the reserved goods or
the transferred claims will not be permitted. The vendor is to be
informed of mortgaging immediately, giving the mortgage creditor.
10. If the vendor takes the object of the delivery back on the basis
of the reservation of title, a withdrawal from the contract will
only be present if the vendor declares this expressly. The vendor
will be able to gain satisfaction from the relevant goods through
private sale.
11. The purchaser will hold the reserved goods for the vendor free
of charge. It must insure them against the usual dangers, such as
fire, theft and water, to the customary extent. The purchaser will
hereby transfer its claims for compensation against insurance companies
or other parties liable to which it will be entitled to the vendor
at the level of the invoice value of the goods. The vendor will
accept the transfer.
12. All claims and rights arising from the reserved title to all
the special forms established in these terms will continue to exist
until the complete release from possible obligations in the interests
of the purchaser that the vendor has entered.
VI. Liability for Defects
and Delivery
The supplier will be liable for defects in the delivery, to which
the absence of expressly promised characteristics also belongs,
with the exclusion of further claims as follows:
1. All those parts that are demonstrably unusable or are significantly
diminished in their usability as a consequence of a circumstance
existing before the transfer of danger - particularly because of
defective construction, poor raw materials or faulty execution -
within 4 weeks of delivery are to be repaired according to the reasonable
estimation of the supplier or to be resupplied. The supplier is
to be informed immediately in writing if such defects are established.
Replaced parts will become the property of the supplier. If the
despatch, the installation or bringing into service is delayed without
the fault of the supplier, the liability will cease 3 months after
the transfer of the danger at the latest.
2. The right of the customer to assert claims arising from defects
will expire in all cases by limitation 3 months from the time of
the timely censure, but with the expiry of the period of guarantee
at the earliest.
3. No guarantee will be taken over for damage arising from the following
reasons.
Unsuitable or improper use, defective installation or putting into
operation by the customer or by third parties, natural wear and
tear, defective or negligent treatment - particularly excessive
stresses - unsuitable production equipment and facilities, in so
far as they are not attributable to a fault of the supplier.
4. Of the immediate costs arising through the repair or the supply
of a replacement, the supplier will bear the costs of the replacement
piece, including despatch and the reasonable costs of removal and
installation, In so far as the complaint turns out to be justified.
Furthermore it will bear the costs of the necessary provision of
its installers and assistants. Otherwise, the customer will bear
the costs.
5. The supplier will be able to refuse to remedy defects as long
as the customer does not fulfil its obligations.
6. Liability will be revoked for consequences arising from improper
changes or repair work by the customer or third parties undertaken
without the previous permission of the supplier.
7. No additional claims of the customer will exist, particularly
any claim to compensation for damage that has not arisen to the
subject of the delivery itself.
VII. Right of the Customer
to Withdraw
1. The customer will be entitled to withdraw, if there is a delay
in performance in the sense of Section III of the Conditions of
Supply and if the customer gives the supplier that is late a reasonable
additional time for the performance of the contract with the expressive
declaration that it will refuse to accept the service after the
expiry of this additional time, and if the additional time is not
kept to through the fault of the supplier.
2. Furthermore, the customer will have a right to withdraw, if the
supplier allows a reasonable additional time set for it to remedy
or improve a defect for which it is responsible in the sense of
the Conditions of Supply to pass fruitlessly through its own fault.
The reasonable additional time will not begin before the defect
or the obligation of the supplier to substitute has been acknowledged
or proved.
3. All other further claims of the customer, particularly to change,
cancellation or reduction and to compensation for damage of any
kind, also for damage that has not arisen on the subject of the
delivery itself, will be excluded.
VIII. Right of the
Supplier to Withdraw
1. The supplier will be entitled to withdraw completely or partly
from the contract in the case of unforeseen events in the sense
of Section III, in so far as they change the commercial significance
or the content of the service significantly or have a significant
effect on the operation of the supplier, and in the case of subsequently
emerging impossibility of execution.
2. The supplier will be entitled to withdraw from the contract,
if the customer does not fulfil its obligations to pay promptly.
No claims to compensation of the customer because of such a withdrawal
will exist. If the supplier wants to make use of the right to withdraw,
it must inform the customer immediately after recognizing the consequences
of the event, even if an extension of the delivery time was initially
agreed with the customer.
IX. Place of Jurisdiction
Action is to be brought at the court that is responsible for the
head office of the supplier in the case of all disputes arising
from the contractual relationship. The supplier will also be entitled
to bring an action at the head office of the customer.
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