Annotated Text of CISGsk en

[slovenske znenie]

[Preamble]

PART I -- SPHERE OF APPLICATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER I -- SPHERE OF APPLICATION

• Article 1 [Basic Rules of applicability; internationality; relation to Contracting State]
• Article 2 [Exclusions from the Convention]
• Article 3 [Goods to be manufactured; services]
• Article 4 [Issues covered and excluded; validity and the effect on property interest in the goods sold]
• Article 5 [Exclusion of liability for death or personal injury]
• Article 6 [The contract and the Convention (primacy of the contract)]

CHAPTER II -- GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Article 7 [Interpretation of the Convention]
• Article 8 [Interpretation of statements or other conduct of a party]
• Article 9 [Usages and practices applicable to the contract]
• Article 10 [Definition of "place of business"]
• Article 11 [Inapplicability of domestic requirement that contract be in writing and of other domestic requirements as to form]
• Article 12 [Declaration by Contracting State preserving its domestic requirements as to form]
• Article 13 [Telegram and telex as a "writing"]

PART II -- FORMATION OF THE CONTRACT

• Article 14 [Criteria for an offer]
• Article 15 [When offer becomes effective; prior withdrawal]
• Article 16 [Revocability of offer]
• Article 17 [Rejection of offer followed by acceptance]
• Article 18 [Acceptance: time and manner for indicating assent]
• Article 19 ["Acceptance" with modifications]
• Article 20 [Interpretation of offeror's time-limits for acceptance]
• Article 21 [Late acceptances: response by offeror]
• Article 22 [Withdrawal of acceptance]
• Article 23 [Effect of acceptance: time of conclusion of contract]
• Article 24 [When communication "reaches" addressee]

PART III -- SALE OF GOODS

CHAPTER I -- GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Article 25 [Definition of "fundamental breach"]
• Article 26 [Notice of avoidance]
• Article 27 [Delay or error in communications]
• Article 28 [Specific performance and rules of the forum]
• Article 29 [Modification of contract; writing requirement]

CHAPTER II -- OBLIGATIONS OF THE SELLER

• Article 30 [Seller's principal obligations]

SECTION I. DELIVERY OF THE GOODS AND HANDING OVER OF DOCUMENTS

• Article 31 [Place of delivery]
• Article 32 [Shipping arrangements]
• Article 33 [Time for delivery]
• Article 34 [Documents relating to the goods]

SECTION II. CONFORMITY OF THE GOODS AND THIRD-PARTY CLAIMS

• Article 35 [Conformity of the goods]
• Article 36 [Damage to goods: effect on conformity]
• Article 37 [Right to cure up to date for delivery]
• Article 38 [Time for examining the goods]
• Article 39 [Notice for lack of conformity]
• Article 40 [Seller's knowledge of non-conformity]
• Article 41 [Third-party claims to goods]
• Article 42 [Third-party claims based on a patent or other intellectual property]
• Article 43 [Notice of third-party claim]
• Article 44 [Excuse for failure to notify]

SECTION III. REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT BY THE SELLER

• Article 45 [Remedies available to buyer]
• Article 46 [Buyer's right to compel performance]
• Article 47 [Buyer's notice fixing additional final period for performance]
• Article 48 [Cure after date for delivery; requests for clarification]
• Article 49 [Buyer's right to avoid the contract]
• Article 50 [Remedy of reduction of price]
• Article 51 [Non-conformity of part of the goods]
• Article 52 [Early delivery; excess quantity]

CHAPTER III -- OBLIGATIONS OF THE BUYER

• Article 53 [Buyer's principal obligations]

SECTION I. PAYMENT OF THE PRICE

• Article 54 [Enabling steps]
• Article 55 [Open-price contracts]
• Article 56 [Net weight]
• Article 57 [Place for payment]
• Article 58 [Time for payment; inspection of the goods]
• Article 59 [Payment due without request]

SECTION II. TAKING DELIVERY

• Article 60 [Buyer's obligation to take delivery]

SECTION III. REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT BY BUYER

• Article 61 [Remedies available to seller]
• Article 62 [Seller's right to compel performance]
• Article 63 [Seller's notice fixing additional final period for performance]
• Article 64 [Seller's right to avoid the contract]
• Article 65 [Seller's notice supplying missing specifications]

CHAPTER IV -- PASSING OF RISK

• Article 66 [Loss or damage after risk passed to buyer]
• Article 67 [Risk when the contract involves carriage]
• Article 68 [Sale of goods during transit]
• Article 69 [General residual rules on risk]
• Article 70 [Risk when seller is in breach]

CHAPTER V -- PROVISIONS COMMON TO THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE SELLER AND OF THE BUYER

SECTION I. ANTICIPATORY BREACH AND INSTALMENT CONTRACTS

• Article 71 [Suspension of performance]
• Article 72 [Avoidance prior to date for performance]
• Article 73 [Avoidance in instalment contracts]

SECTION II. DAMAGES

• Article 74 [General rule for measuring damages]
• Article 75 [Measurement of damages when contract avoided]
• Article 76 [Measurement of damages when contract avoided -- additional rules]
• Article 77 [Mitigation of damages]

SECTION III. INTEREST

• Article 78 [Interest on sums in arrears]

SECTION IV. EXEMPTIONS

• Article 79 [Impediment excusing a party from damages]
• Article 80 [Failure of performance caused by other party]

SECTION V. EFFECTS OF AVOIDANCE

• Article 81 [Effect of avoidance; restitution]
• Article 82 [Buyer's inability to return goods in same condition]
• Article 83 [Preservation of other remedies]
• Article 84 [Restitution of benefits]

SECTION VI. PRESERVATION OF THE GOODS

• Article 85 [Seller's duty to preserve goods]
• Article 86 [Buyer's duty to preserve goods]
• Article 87 [Deposit of goods in warehouse]
• Article 88 [Sale of the goods]

PART IV -- FINAL PROVISIONS

• Article 89 [Secretary-General designated depositary]
• Article 90 [Provisions that Convention does not prevail over certain other international agreements]
  
  [DECLARATIONS]

• Article 91 [Convention open for signature, subject to ratification, etc]
• Article 92 [Contracting State may declare at the time of signature that Part II or Part III not binding]
• Article 93 [Applicability to territorial units of a Contracting State]
• Article 94 [Applicability to Contracting States having the same or closely related legal rules]
• Article 95 [State may declare article 1(1)(b) non-binding]
• Article 96 [Provision for continuation of a Contracting State's requirement that contracts be in writing]
• Article 97 [Effective date of declarations under Convention]
• Article 98 [Restriction on reservations under Convention]
  
  [ENTRY INTO FORCE]

• Article 99 [Entry into force]
• Article 100 [Convention only applies to contracts made after it enters into force]
• Article 101 "A Contracting State may denounce this Convention ..."