Source: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cases/920326g1.html
Timestamp: 2017-05-25 03:03:58
Document Index: 597063625

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 5', 'Art. 5', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 3', 'Art. 1', 'Art. 57']

Germany 26 March 1992 Supreme Court (Windows and doors case)Go to Database Directory || Go to CISG Table of Contents
Germany 26 March 1992 Supreme Court (Windows and doors case) [Cite as: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cases/920326g1.html]
Primary source(s) for case presentation: Michael R. Will; case
DATE OF DECISION: 19920326 (26 March 1992) JURISDICTION: Germany TRIBUNAL:	Bundesgerichtshof [Federal Supreme Court] JUDGE(S): Unavailable CASE NUMBER/DOCKET NUMBER: VII ZR 258/91 CASE NAME: German case citations do not identify parties to
proceedings CASE HISTORY: Further proceedings: European Court of Justice 29
June 1994 SELLER'S COUNTRY: Germany (plaintiff) BUYER'S COUNTRY: United Kingdom (defendant) GOODS INVOLVED: Windows and doors Classification of issues present
APPLICATION OF CISG: No (however, ULIS issue is present that is also relevant to the CISG) APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES Key CISG provisions at issue: Articles 3(2) ; 57 [obiter
reference] Classification of issues using UNCITRAL classification code numbers:
3B [Services part of obligation];
Descriptors: Jurisdiction ; Payment, place of ; Services Go to Case Table of Contents
Jurisdiction/Payment, place of. At issue was "whether the rule
established by the European Court of Justice, under which the place of
performance for the purposes of Article 5(1) of the EEC Judgments
Convention is determined by the substantive law referred to by the
private international law of the forum, also applies to matters
by the Uniform Law on International Sales [ULIS], with the consequence
of a basic jurisdiction at the place of the plaintiff/seller as regards
claims for payment of the purchase price."
The Bundesgerichtshof referred this question to the European Court of
Justice which ruled on it in its opinion dated 29 June 1994.
In its referral, the Bundesgerichtshof pointed out that if the answer
in the affirmative, for purposes of determining jurisdiction the
relevant provision would be ULIS Article 59 [The buyer shall pay the
price to the seller at the seller's place of business . . ."] and that
the ruling would have consequences beyond ULIS "since Article 57 of the
[CISG] has the same content as Article 59 of [ULIS]."
Further remarks (contracts with mixed goods and services obligations): excerpt from a commentary by Peter Schlechtriem on Uniform Sales Law in the Decisions of the Bundesgerichtshof*
"[T]he Convention is not only applicable to sales contracts. Under Art. 3(1) CISG
it can also apply to contracts for work and materials as well as, under Art. 3(2) CISG,
contracts with mixed goods and service obligations as long as the goods component is
preponderant. In a submission to the European Court of Justice regarding the question of
legal venue of the place of performance pursuant to Art. 5 No. 1 EuGVÜ [Europäisches
Gerichtsstands- und Vollstreckungsübereinkommen (European Convention on Jurisdiction
and the Enforcement of Judgments)], the Bundesgerichtshof presupposed the application
of the CISG for the compensation claim of an English purchaser arising out of a work and
materials contract.30 Thus, the Bundesgerichtshof unqualifiedly presumed that the CISG
applied for compensation claims from work and materials contracts insofar as the
Convention was to be considered for the determination of the place of performance under
Art. 5 No. 1 EuGVÜ.31 Notably, contracts requiring the delivery and installment of
machinery can also be subject to the Convention under Art. 3 CISG. Already under the
ULIS, the Bundesgerichtshof had no reservation in judging according to the uniform sales
law the sale of a manufacturing plant consisting of two sections and for which the seller
evidently undertook installment obligations.32 Under the CISG, however, differing views
exist concerning contracts for the sale of industrial machinery with their combined delivery
of parts and installation obligations.33"
30. BGH of 26 March 1992, WM 1992, 1715 ff. 31. Id. The European Court of Justice [ECJ] approved the application of the Convention for the determination of the place of performance, which is decisive for the determination of the legal venue. See ECJ of 29 June 1994, NJW 1995, 183-184.
33. Often a mixed contract is assumed for which the CISG is generally only applicable if the parties agreed
to its application or if, according to the basic idea of Art. 3 CISG, the supply of goods is the preponderant
part of the undertaken obligations. See Bianca/Bonell/Khoo, Commentary on the International
Sales Law, Art. 3 para. 3.1. (1987); Herber/Czerwernka, supra note 12, at Art. 3, para. 3 ;
Honnold, Uniform Law for International Sales, Art. 3, para. 60.1 (2d. ed. 1991); Loewe,
Internationales Kaufrecht, Art. 3 (1989); Neumayer/Ming, Convention de Vienne sur les
contrats de vente internationale de marchandises - Commentaire, Art. 3, para. 4 (1993);
Schlechtriem/Herber, Kommentar zum Einheitlichen UN-Kaufrecht - CISG, Art. 3 para. 3 (2d
English: 12 European Current Law Monthly Digest (1992) No. 87
[19-20] = European Current Law Year Book (1992) No. 1417 [284-285]
CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION Original language (German): cisg-online.ch <http://www.cisg-online.ch/cisg/urteile/67.htm>; Warneyers Rechtsprechung des
Bundesgerichtshofs in Zivilsachen (BGHWarn) 1992, 232-238; Recht
der Internationalen Wirtschaft (RIW) 1992, 756-760;
Wertpapier-Mitteilungen (WM) 1992, 1715-1720; Europäische
Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW) 1992, 514-518; Praxis
internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 1992,
373-377; Die deutsche Rechtsprechung auf dem Gebiete des
internationalen Privatrechts im Jahre (IPRspr) 1992 No. 181
[387-396] Translation (English): 1993 International Litigation
490-500 CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION
English: Schlechtriem, in: Uniform Sales Law in the Decisions of the Bundesgerichtshof (2001), at n.30; [2005] Schlechtriem & Schwenzer ed., Commentary on UN Convention on International Sale of Goods, 2d (English) ed., Oxford University Press, Art. 1 para. 40 Art. 57 paras. 11a, 25
Finnish: Huber/Sundström, Defensor Legis (1997) 747 [753]
German: Geimer, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW)
1992, 518; Jayme, Praxis des internationalen Privat- und
Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 1992, 357 [358] Go to Case Table of Contents
Commercial Law - Last updated August 9, 2005