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CISG-online number
483
Case name
Partition panels case
Jurisdiction
Austria
Court
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Judges
Dr. Horst Schlosser (Presiding Judge), Dr. Alfons Zechner (Judge), Dr. Josef Gerstenecker (Judge), Dr. Peter Schiemer (Judge), Dr. Ronald Rohrer (Judge)
Date of decision
29 June 1999
Case nr./docket nr.
1 Ob 74/99k
Claimant 1
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Place of business
Austria
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Partition panels case
Handelsgericht Wien (Commercial Court Vienna)
Austria, 16 March 1998 – 27 Cg 126/96a-25, CISG-online 3925
Partition panels case
Oberlandesgericht Wien (Court of Appeal Vienna)
Austria, 30 December 1998 – 5 R 83/98g-30, CISG-online 3926
reversing in part
Present decision reversing
Seller 1
Place of business
Germany
Role in trade
Manufacturer of the goods sold
Buyer 1
Place of business
Austria
Role in trade
Construction company purchasing goods as supplies
Category of goods
63: Cork and wood manufactures (excluding furniture)
Goods as per contract
Partition panels
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
CISG applied
yes
Key CISG provisions interpreted and applied
Art. 81(1); Art. 82(2)
Key CISG provisions interpreted
Art. 29(1)
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 7(2)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 6; Art. 31; Art. 35 et seq.; Art. 49
This decision is cited by 7
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Production line for manufacturing metal products case
ICC International Court of Arbitration
Arbitration, 2013 – 18671, CISG-online 3055
Neoplan bus case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 21 April 2004 – 7 Ob 32/04p, CISG-online 1048
Intel Pentium II/300 processors case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 05 July 2001 – 6 Ob 117/01a, CISG-online 652
Phoneboards case
Oberlandesgericht Graz (Court of Appeal Graz)
Austria, 28 September 2000 – 4 R 55/00s, CISG-online 798
Frame profiles and ceiling rails case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 09 March 2000 – 6 Ob 311/99z, CISG-online 573
Decision published in 6
Österreichisches Recht der Wirtschaft (RdW) (2000), 19 [Full text – in German]
Zeitschrift für Europarecht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung (ZfRV) (2000), 33–36 [Full text – in German]
6 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (VJ) (2002), 367–376 [Full text (translation) – in English]
Transportrecht – Beilage Internationales Handelsrecht (TranspR-IHR) (2000), 48–50 [Full text – in German]
ecolex - Fachzeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ecolex) (2000), 567 [Abstract – in German]
Sammlung Zivilsachen: Entscheidungen des Österreichischen Obersten Gerichtshofes in Zivilsachen (SZ) (72/109),
European Case Law Identifier (ECLI)
ECLI:AT:OGH0002:1999:0010OB00074.99K.0629.000
CLOUT number
422
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
990629a3
Comments on this decision 7
Larry A. DiMatteo, Lucien Dhooge, Stephanie Greene, Virginia Maurer & Marisa Pagnattaro, 'The Interpretive Turn in International Sales Law: An Analysis of Fifteen Years of CISG Jurisprudence', 34 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business (Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus) (2004), 299–440, at 393–394 [– in English]  
Rudolf Hennecke, 'Gefahrtragung beim Rücktransport mangelhafter Ware', Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2003), 268 [– in German]
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 172 [– 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 41 [– in English]
Chengwei Liu, 'Effects of Avoidance: Perspectives from the CISG, UNIDROIT Principles and PECL and case law', Nordic Journal of Commercial Law (NJCL) (2005), #1, 1–31 [– in English]  
Willibald Posch & Thomas Petz, 'Austrian Cases on the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods', 6 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (VJ) (2002), 1–24, at 15 [– in English]
Christian Thiele, 'Zum Leistungsort bei einer Rückabwicklung eines dem CISG unterfallenden Vertrages', Transportrecht – Beilage Internationales Handelsrecht (TranspR-IHR) (1999), 50–51 [– in German]
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