Belgium 29 January 2001 District Court Ieper (Cooling installations case)
[Cite as: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cases/010129b1.html]
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CASE HISTORY: 2d instance Hof van Beroep Gent 17 May 2004
SELLER'S COUNTRY: Italy (plaintiff)
BUYER'S COUNTRY: Belgium (defendant)
GOODS INVOLVED: Cooling installations
Reproduced with permission from CISG-Belgium database of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Applicable law – both countries party to CISG – CISG applicable
Applicable law on counterclaim – before CISG in force in Belgium - Convention on the Law Applicable to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Hague Conference, June 15, 1955) – law of residence of seller –
Italy – CISG
Notice of non-conformity – reasonable period – longer – resale – non-conformity only became known later
Obligation to examine – not true obligation – non-conformity could only become known after continued use
Prescription – supplementary law – Italian – Italy not party to Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods (New York 14 June1974) – Italian Civil Code
Interest – freedom of contract – rate which parties agreed upon – in casu – no agreement – lex contractus – unknown – à rato
Case outline
APPLICATION OF CISG: Yes [Article 1(1)(a)]
APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES
Key CISG provisions at issue:
Classification of issues using UNCITRAL classification code numbers:
4B31 [Scope of Convention (issues excluded): statute of limitations (prescription periods)]; 7C2 [General principles on which Convention is based: autonomy of the parties]; 38A [Buyer's obligation to examine goods]; 39A [Requirement to notify seller of lack of conformity: buyer must notify seller within reasonable time]; 78B [Rate of interest]
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CITATIONS TO ABSTRACTS OF DECISION
(a) UNCITRAL abstract: Unavailable
(b) Other abstracts
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CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION
Original language (Dutch): CISG-Belgium database of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven <http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/ipr/eng/cases/2001-01-29.html>; Tijdschrift@ipr.be; Tijdschrift van het Instituut voor Internationaal Privaatrecht, Universiteit Gent (March 2002) no. 1, 21-26
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CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION
English: CISG-AC advisory opinion on Examination of the Goods and Notice of Non-Conformity [7 June 2004] (this case and related cases cited in addendum to opinion); Article 78 and rate of interest: Mazzotta, Endless disagreement among commentators, much less among courts (2004) [citing this case and 275 other court and arbitral rulings]; [2005] Schlechtriem & Schwenzer ed., Commentary on UN Convention on International Sale of Goods, 2d (English) ed., Oxford University Press, Art. 4 para. 21
French: Papandréou-Deterville, Receuil Dalloz - Cahier Droit des Affairs No. 34 (October 2003) 2365-2366
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