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CISG-online number
641
Case name
German timber case
Jurisdiction
Austria
Court
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Judges
Dr. Peter Bauer (Presiding Judge), Dr. Friedrich Fellinger (Judge), Dr. Hans-Joachim Ehmayr (Judge), Dr. Herbert Hopf (Judge), Dr. Karl Adolf Steinbauer (Judge)
Date of decision
21 March 2000
Case nr./docket nr.
10 Ob 344/99g
Claimant 1
Name
H[...] Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Name
Holzwerke [...] Gesellschaft mbH
Place of business
Austria
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
German timber case
Handelsgericht Wien (Commercial Court Vienna)
Austria, 22 December 1998 – 33 Cg 75/96w-50, CISG-online 3168
German timber case
Oberlandesgericht Wien (Court of Appeal Vienna)
Austria, 27 May 1999 – 15 R 63/99s-57, CISG-online 3636
affirming
Present decision declaring appeal inadmissible
Seller 1
Name
H[...] Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH
Place of business
Germany
Buyer 1
Name
Holzwerke [...] Gesellschaft mbH
Place of business
Austria
Category of goods
24: Cork and wood
Goods as per contract
Timber
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
CISG applied
yes
Key CISG provisions interpreted and applied
Art. 9(1); Art. 9(2); Art. 39
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 4; Art. 38; Art. 40
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 49; Art. 50
This decision cites the following other CISG-online cases 2
Bulgarian trekking shoes case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 27 August 1999 – 1 Ob 223/99x, CISG-online 485
Austrian wood case
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Austria, 15 October 1998 – 2 Ob 191/98x, CISG-online 380
Decision published in 3
Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2001), 40–41 [Full text – in German]
Zeitschrift für Europarecht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung (ZfRV) (2000), 185–186 [Leitsatz (headnote) – in German]
ecolex - Fachzeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (ecolex) (2000), 306 [ – in German]
CLOUT number
425
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
000321a3
Comments on this decision 2
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 10 [– in English]
Willibald Posch & Ulfried Terlitza, 'Entscheidungen des österreichischen Obersten Gerichtshofs zur UN-Kaufrechtskonvention (CISG)', Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2001), 47–56, at 50 [– in German]
Full text, translation and abstract of decision 3
Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 425 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: German
Translation of decision
Language: English
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Veit Konrad & Jan Henning Berg