Belgium 21 January 1997 District Court Hasselt (Epsilon v. Interneon)
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CASE NUMBER/DOCKET NUMBER: A.R. 1972/96
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CASE HISTORY: Unavailable
SELLER'S COUNTRY: Belgium (plaintiff)
BUYER'S COUNTRY: Netherlands (defendant)
GOODS INVOLVED: Neon advertising signs
Reproduced with permission from CISG-Belgium database of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Application of the CISG - Rules of Private International Law of the forum referring to law of Contracting State (Article 1(1)(b)) - Convention on the Law Applicable to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Hague Conference, June 15, 1955)
Temporal applicability of CISG - Article 100 CISG - In respect of formation of contract - Court refuses to choose between applicability of CISG and applicability of Uniform Sales Law of 1964
Place of payment of price - Article 57 CISG - Seller’s place of business
Buyer’s obligation to give seller notice of lack of conformity of goods - Article 39 CISG - Time of notice - Within reasonable time - Notice 4 months after delivery - Notice out of time
Interest - Article 78 CISG - Interest rate - Rate determines in standard terms of one party
Right to claim damages - Article 74 CISG - Liquidated damages clause - Invalid according to applicable national law
Case outline
APPLICATION OF CISG: Court stated immaterial whether CISG [Article 1(1)(b)] or ULIS applied
APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES
Key CISG provisions at issue: Articles
Classification of issues using UNCITRAL classification code numbers:
4B [Issues excluded: penalty clauses (validity under domestic law];
39A Requirement to notify seller of lack of conformity: buyer must notify seller within reasonable time (more than four months not a reasonable time];
57A [Place for payment: in absence of agreement, payment at seller's place of business];
78B [Interest on delay in receiving price: rate of interest]
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CITATIONS TO ABSTRACTS OF DECISION
(a) UNCITRAL abstract: Unavailable
(b) Other abstracts
English: Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=262&step=Abstract>
CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION
Original language (Dutch): CISG-Belgium database of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven <http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/ipr/eng/cases/1997-01-21.html>; Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=262&step=FullText>
Translation: Unavailable
CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION
Dutch: Erauw, [1998] Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht (TvP 35) 1369 [1517 No. 260, 1522 Nos. 263, 264]
English: Liu Chengwei, Recovery of interest (November 2003) n.270; Larry A. DiMatteo et al., 34 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business (Winter 2004) 299-440 at n.369 (notice of lack of conformity); 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); [2004] S.A. Kruisinga, (Non-)conformity in the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: a uniform concept?, Intersentia at 181; 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. 39 para. 15 Art. 74 para. 49
French: Papandréou-Deterville, Recueil Dalloz (1998) 312
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