CISG Article 3 ULIS Article 6
1. Contracts for the supply of Contracts for the supply of
goods to be manufactured or goods to be manufactured or
produced are to be considered produced shall be considered
sales unless the party who to be sales within the meaning
orders the goods undertakes to of the present Law, unless the
supply a substantial part of the party who orders the goods
materials necessary for such undertakes to supply an essential
manufacture or production. and substantial part of the
materials for such manufacture
2. This Convention does not or production.
apply to contracts in which the
preponderant part of the obligations [See ULF Article 1(7) for
of the party who furnishes the goods language identical to the quoted
consists in the supply of labour or ULIS article.]
other services.
"Article 3(1) corresponds -- with minor textual differences -- to Article 6 ULIS and Article 1(7) ULF. During UNCITRAL's preparatory discussions, consideration was first given to whether Article 3(2) should have a different, more general form, and after the adoption of the 1974 Convention on Limitation it was modelled on Article 6(1) of that convention. The original, more general wording, which provided that the Convention was not applicable if the party's obligations were substantially other than the delivery of and payment for goods, was narrowed to cases in which the other obligations involved labour or other services. The Diplomatic Conference merely made another change to the wording by substituting the words 'party who furnishes the goods' for the term 'seller' used in the Convention on Limitations; this was because Article 3(2) was aimed specifically at contracts that are not characterized as contracts of sale for the purposes of the CISG." Herber in Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods, Peter Schlechtriem ed. (Oxford 1998) 38 [citations omitted].
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Illustrative ULIS case precedents that can aid in the interpretation of CISG Article 3
ULIS case law referred to below comes from the chapter on CISG Article 3 in Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods, Peter Schlechtriem ed. (Clarendon Press: Oxford 1998)
The author of this chapter is Rolf Herber, Emeritus Professor, University of Hamburg. ULIS case annotations provided are his. [Bracketed] material following each case citation identifies the page of his chapter and the footnote he provides. Click here for schedule of abbreviations contained in his case citations.
Interpretation and ULIS case support
The material we have excerpted pertains only to case law under the Uniform Law that preceded the CISG -- jurisprudence that parties have regarded as relevant because the CISG drafting process commenced with that Law. See the cited chapter of the Schlechtriem Commentary for a comprehensive analysis of CISG Article 3.
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