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CISG-online number
5500
Case name
CeDe Group AB v. KAN Sp. z o.o.
Jurisdiction
Sweden
Court
Högsta domstolen (Swedish Supreme Court)
Judges
Svante O. Johansson (Reporting judge), Ann-Christine Lindeblad (Judge), Gudmund Toijer (Judge), Johan Danelius (Judge), Johnny Herre (Judge), Christina Berg (Föredragande justitiesekreterare)
Date of decision
29 May 2020
Case nr./docket nr.
T 6032-16
Claimant 1
Name
KAN Sp. z o.o.
Place of business
Poland
Role in transaction
Seller’s assignee
Respondent 1
Name
CeDe Group AB
Place of business
Sweden
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
PPUB Janson sp.j. v. CeDe Group AB
Malmö tingsrätt (District Court Malmö)
Sweden, 2014, CISG-online 5141
KAN Sp. z o.o. v. CeDe Group AB
Hovrätten över Skåne och Blekinges (Court of Appeal Scania and Blekinge)
Sweden, 24 November 2016 – T 3054-14, CISG-online 5303
Present decision affirming, but based on a different reasoning than the decision under appeal
Seller 1
Name
PPUB Janson sp.j.
Place of business
Poland
Buyer 1
Name
CeDe Group AB
Place of business
Sweden
Category of goods
100: Unspecified goods
Goods as per contract
Goods (unspecified)
CISG applicable
yes, due to parties' choice of the law of a CISG Contracting State
CISG applied
yes
(Domestic) law applied in addition
Swedish law
Key CISG provisions interpreted and applied
Art. 4; Art. 7(2); Art. 90
Key CISG provisions interpreted
Art. 6
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 1(1)(a); Art. 1(1)(b)
Non-provision-specific issues addressed
Set-off
This decision cites the following other CISG-online case 1
Hungarian injection moulding tools case
Bundesgerichtshof (German Supreme Court)
Germany, 24 September 2014 – VIII ZR 394/12, CISG-online 2545
This decision cites the following CISG-AC Opinion 1
CISG-AC Opinion No. 18 ‘Set-off under the CISG’ (Rapporteur: Christiana Fountoulakis), adopted by the CISG Advisory Council following its 24th meeting in Antigua (Guatemala) on 2 and 3 February 2018
Decision published in 1
Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2021), 187–190 [Full text (translation) – in English]
CLOUT number
2112
Comment on this decision 1
Martin E. Aquilina, Max Deleon, Stuti Murarka, Willem den Hertog, Anders Forkman, William P. Johnson & Samuel G. Wieczorek, 'International Contracts Committee', 55 The Year in Review: An Annual Publication of the ABA/Section of International Law (ABA/SIL YIR) (2021), 87–107, at 98–102 [– in English]  
Full text, translation and abstract of decision 3
Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 2112 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: Swedish
Translation of decision
Language: English
translated by
Jean-Paul Vulliéty