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CISG-online number
435
Case name
Ukrainian coal case I
Arbitral Tribunal
Арбитражния съд при Българската търговско-промишлена палата
(Arbitration Court at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
Seat of the arbitration
Sofia (Bulgaria)
Arbitrators
Prof. Ivan Vladimirov (Presiding arbitrator (Chairperson)), Andrej Deltchev (Co-arbitrator), Bojan Ivantchev (Co-arbitrator)
Date of decision
24 April 1996
Case nr./docket nr.
56/1995
Claimant 1
Place of business
Ukraine
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Place of business
Bulgaria
Role in transaction
Buyer
Seller 1
Place of business
Ukraine
Buyer 1
Place of business
Bulgaria
Category of goods
32: Coal, coke and briquettes
Goods as per contract
1,200,000 metric tons of coal (type “ASCH”)
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
CISG applied
yes
(Domestic) law applied in addition
Bulgarian law
Key CISG provisions interpreted and applied
Art. 78
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 7(2); Art. 40; Art. 50; Art. 79(1)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 6; Art. 38(1); Art. 38(2); Art. 39(1); Art. 39(2)
Non-provision-specific issues addressed
Contractual force majeure clause; Contractual penalty or liquidated damages (fixed sums) clause; Parties’ duties regarding export clearance formalities
This decision is cited by 1
Macromex Srl. v. Globex International Inc.
American Arbitration Association – International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR)
Arbitration, 23 October 2007 – 50181T 0036406 (Interim Award), CISG-online 1645
Decision published in 4
Praktika Bulgarska turgovsko-promishlena palata (BTPP) (1989–1995), No. 145, 178–180 [ – in Bulgarian]
Praktika Bulgarska turgovsko-promishlena palata (BTPP) (1989–1995), No. 146, 180–181 [ – in Bulgarian]
Praktika Bulgarska turgovsko-promishlena palata (BTPP) (1996–1997), No. 72, 133–136 [ – in Bulgarian]
Fritz Enderlein & Dietrich Maskow, 'International Sales Law: United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods – Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods', in: Dobbs Ferry: Oceana (1992),at 185–191 [Full text (translation) – in German]  
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
960424bu
Comments on this decision 3
René Franz Henschel, Conformity of Goods in International Sales: An analysis of Article 35 in the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), Copenhagen: Karnov Group (2005), at 157 [– in English]
Sonja A. Kruisinga, (Non-)conformity in the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: A Uniform Concept?, Cambridge: Intersentia (2004), at 134 [– in English]
Radosveta Vassileva, 'Autonomous Interpretation of Uniform Commercial Law: The East-West European Divide', 29(6) European Business Law Review (EBLR) (2018), 885–906, at 893–894 [– in English]
Translation of decision 1
Translation of decision
Language: German
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Biljana Dischlieva