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CISG-online number
870
Case name
Behr France S.a.r.l. v. Romay AG
Jurisdiction
France
Court
Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court)
Chamber
Chambre civile 1 (Chamber for civil matters 1)
Judges
Jacques Lemontey (Presiding Judge), Gérard Pluyette (Reporting judge), Rivière (Judge), Astrid Marais (Judge), Dominique Tay (Judge), Jean-Pierre Gridel (Judge), Olivier Renard-Payen (Judge), Petit (Advocate General), Aydalot (Griffier)
Date of decision
30 June 2004
Case nr./docket nr.
Y 01-15.964
Claimant 1
Name
Romay AG
Place of business
Switzerland
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Name
Behr France S.a.r.l.
Place of business
France
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Romay AG v. Behr France S.a.r.l.
Tribunal de Grande Instance de Colmar (District Court Colmar)
France, 18 December 1997 – 96-325, CISG-online 555
Romay AG v. Behr France S.a.r.l.
Cour d'appel de Colmar (Court of Appeal Colmar)
France, 12 June 2001 – 1 A 199800359, CISG-online 694
reversing
Present decision affirming
Seller 1
Name
Romay AG
Place of business
Switzerland
Buyer 1
Name
Behr France S.a.r.l.
Place of business
France
Category of goods
58: Plastics in non-primary forms
Goods as per contract
Cases made from polyurethane foam
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
CISG applied
yes
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 74; Art. 77; Art. 79
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 2; Art. 3; Art. 7; Art. 8; Art. 30
Non-provision-specific issues addressed
Definition of 'contract of sale'
This decision is cited by 1
Diammonium phosphate case
Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA)
Arbitration, 19 February 2023 – 1527/2021 (Final Award), CISG-online 6272
Decision published in 1
Bulletin des arrêts des Chambres civiles de la Cour de cassation (Bull. civ.) (2004), I, No. 192, 159 [Full text – in French]
CLOUT number
839
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
040630f1
Comments on this decision 4
Pascale Deumier, 'Vente internationale de marchandises: qualification de la vente et changement de circonstances économiques', Revue des Contrats (RDC) (2005), 456 [– in French]
Tobias Eckardt, Ulrich Magnus & Burghard Piltz, 'Art. 79 CISG in der internationalen Rechtsprechung. Eine Auswahl französischer, schweizerischer, belgischer, US-amerikanischer, niederländischer und spanischer Entscheidungen', Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2020), 140–149, at 140–141 [– in German]  
Pauline Remy-Corlay, Revue trimestrielle de droit civil (RTD civ.) (2005), 335 at 354–357 [– in French]
Florian Schumacher, 'Kaufoptionsvertrag und Verwendungsrisiko im UN-Kaufrecht', Internationales Handelsrecht (IHR) (2005), 147–151 [– in German]
Full text and abstract of decision 2
Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 839 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: French