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CISG-online number
943
Case name
Food shaper products case
Jurisdiction
Switzerland
Court
Appellationsgericht Basel-Stadt (Court of Appeal Canton Basel-Stadt)
Judges
Dr. Dieter Moor (Presiding Judge), Dr. Catherine Geigy-Werthemann (Judge), Prof. Dr. Fritz Rapp (Judge), Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmid (Judge), Dr. Paul Rüst (Judge), lic. iur. Saskia Schärer (Gerichtsschreiberin)
Date of decision
22 August 2003
Case nr./docket nr.
33/2002/SAS/so
Claimant 1
Respondent 1
Case History
Seller 1
Buyer 1
Category of goods
9: Miscellaneous edible products and preparations
Goods as per contract
400 tons of “food shaper” products (free of genetically modified soybeans)
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(b)
CISG applied
yes
(Domestic) law applied in addition
Swiss law
Key CISG provisions interpreted
Art. 6
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 25; Art. 35(1); Art. 49(1)(a); Art. 100(2)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 1(1)(a); Art. 1(1)(b); Art. 74
Relevant CISG provisions not cited
Art. 78
Non-provision-specific issues addressed
Contractual limitation of liability clause in CISG contract (including its validity)
Decision published in 2
CLOUT number
887
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
030822s1
Comment on this decision 1
Full text and abstract of decision 2
