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CISG-online number
138
Case name
Fauba France FDIS GC Electronique v. Fujitsu Mikroelektronik GmbH
Jurisdiction
France
Court
Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court)
Chamber
1re chambre civile (1st chamber for civil matters)
Judges
Grégoire (Presiding Judge), Jacques Lemontey (Reporting judge), Thierry (Judge), Chartier (Judge), Gié (Judge), Ancel (Judge), Gélineau-Larrivet (Judge), Olivier Renard-Payen (Judge), Le Foyer de Costil (Advocate General), Collet (Griffier)
Date of decision
04 January 1995
Case nr./docket nr.
92-16.993
Claimant 1
Name
Fujitsu Mikroelektronik GmbH
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Name
Fauba France FDIS GC Electronique
Place of business
France
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Fujitsu Mikroelektronik GmbH v. Fauba France FDIS GC Electronique
Tribunal de Commerce de Paris (Commercial Court Paris)
France, 06 November 1991 – 31859, CISG-online 3139
Fauba France FDIS GC Electronique v. Fujitsu Mikroelektronik GmbH
Cour d'appel de Paris (Court of Appeal Paris)
France, 22 April 1992 – 92-000 863, CISG-online 222
affirming
Present decision affirming
Seller 1
Name
Fujitsu Mikroelektronik GmbH
Place of business
Germany
Buyer 1
Name
Fauba France FDIS GC Electronique
Place of business
France
Category of goods
77: Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, not elsewhere specified, and electrical parts thereof (including non- electrical counterparts, not elsewhere specified, of electrical household-type equipment)
Goods as per contract
Electronic components
Price
418'000.00 DEM (Deutsche Mark)
CISG applied
yes
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 19(2); Art. 86(1)
CLOUT number
155
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
950104f1
Comments on this decision 5
Claude Witz, 'The First Decision of France's Court of Cassation Applying the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods', 16 Journal of Law & Commerce (J.L. & Com.) (1997), 345–356 [– in English]
Claude Witz & Gerhard Wolter, 'Die ersten Entscheidungen französischer Gerichte zum Einheitlichen UN-Kaufrecht', Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft (RIW) (1995), 810–813, at 812–813 [– in German]
Claude Witz, 'Le premier arrêt de la Cour de cassation confronté à la Convention de Vienne - note sous Cass. 1ère civ., 4 janvier 1995', Recueil Dalloz (D.) (1995), jur., 289–292 [– in French]
Fan Yang, 'A Comparative Case Study of the Interpretation Methodology of Article 14 of the CISG: A Global Jurisconsultorium Perspective', 10 European Journal of Law Reform (EJLR) (2008), 3–20, at 8–9 [– in English]  
Fan Yang, 'CISG, CIETAC Arbitration and the Rule of Law in the P.R. of China: A Global Jurisconsultorium Perspective', in: Camilla Baasch Andersen & Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds.), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill (2008), 600–626, at 610–611 [– in English]
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Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 155 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: French