All sales contracts made by the seller shall be subject to the suspensive condition of sufficient creditworthiness of the purchaser as appears from the information gathered.
Any modification or annulment of the order shall be submitted to a written agreement of the seller.
The terms of delivery are indicated for mere information and do not bind the seller.
Delays in delivery do not entitle the purchaser to claim compensation nor termination of the agreement.
The goods are shipped at the risks of the purchaser.
Unless otherwise agreed upon, the costs for transport, insurance, clearing and other costs shall be charged to the purchaser.
If the contract stipulates that the purchaser shall collect the goods, he shall respect the agreed time limits; if not, the seller reserves himself the right to cancel the sale, in full or in part, or to compel the purchaser to accept the delivery, without prejudice to the right to claim compensation and interests in each of these cases.
Storage of the goods to be collected or delivered occurs at the risk of the purchaser.
When the seller, as a result of force majeure, strike, lock-out etc. is in the impossibility to execute the agreement, he reserves the right to terminate the agreement, the purchaser not being entitled to claim any compensation whatsoever.
The seller reserves the right to consider the agreement as terminated as of right and without previous notice in case of bankruptcy, apparent lack of means and whenever the legal situation of the purchaser is altered.
The goods shall be delivered at the registered office of the seller or at any other place determined between parties.
All goods shall be received and accepted before loading.
This acceptation covers the conformity of the goods in terms of quality, quantity and measurements.
Loading implies that the purchaser irrevocably and definitively accepts the goods.
Hence the purchaser has the duty to do the necessary verification on beforehand.
If the goods are collected by an intermediary, this intermediary shall also be considered to act as an agent and on behalf of the purchaser.
The delivery of the goods to this intermediary shall be considered as a definitive acceptation.
The signature of the collection and delivery form by the purchaser or his intermediary shall imply final acceptation of the goods, making all complaints null and void.
This acceptation even covers hidden defects in case of sale, since they are unknown even to the seller at the moment of sale.
Every complaint related to the goods must be communicated immediately upon receipt of the goods and by registered mail, under penalty of voidness.
If a complaint is accepted as being legitimate, the recourse against the seller shall be limited to the amount of the invoice of the shipment concerned.
The seller reserves the right to replace the refused goods without any further compensation.
Unless otherwise agreed upon, the goods shall only be payable in a value of currency with is current in Belgium, within thirty days of the invoice date, at the registered office of the seller or to the profit a Belgian banking account to be indicated by the seller.
Any payment which is not fully made within the aforesaid time limit, shall produce as of right and without previous formal notice a post-maturity interest of one per cent (1%) per month as from the date of the invoice.
The purchaser shall also owe, as of right and without previous formal notice, a lump compensation amounting to ten per cent (10%) of the invoiced amount, with a minimum of 75,00 EUR and a maximum of 2500,00 EUR as compensation.
Costs related to unpaid bills or cheques and other collection costs are not included in this lump compensation and shall be separately charged to the purchaser.
In case of non-payment of any invoice at its maturity date, all outstanding invoices shall be immediately claimable and the company shall have the choice either to suspend other sales transactions, if any, until all outstanding invoice amounts have been paid, or to consider all sales transactions still to be performed by the company as being terminated, without formal notice and even without intervention of court.
The goods remain the property of the seller as long as payments have not been fully made.
Yet, the risk will pass to the purchaser on the very moment of signing the agreement.
When the purchaser cancels an order or fails to respect his commitments, the seller reserves the right either to claim the execution of the order or to claim a compensation amounting to thirty per cent (30%) of the value of the uncollected goods, without prejudice to major proven damage by the seller as a result of the termination of the agreement by the purchaser.
Insofar as the seller and the buyer are bound by a framework agreement and/or the buyer places orders on the basis of price lists/offers received, in the event of unforeseen circumstances and/or a fundamental change which results in one or more of the obligations arising from the purchase agreement becoming unreasonably onerous for one of the parties (such as a significant change in the price of raw materials, transport, energy, currency depreciation), the parties undertake to consult in order to adapt the agreement to the unforeseen circumstances and/or a fundamental change.
Insofar as the parties do not reach an agreement within two months of negotiation after the date of the request for amendment (the date of the request being the date of the registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt and/or e-mail with request for acknowledgement of receipt), each party shall have the option of terminating the agreement without compensation.
Termination is possible only by means of a registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt and must be notified no later than five days after the expiry of the negotiation period.
The notice period is one month and commences on the date of the registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.If no notice of termination is served, the agreement originally concluded shall remain in force.
The negotiation period and the period of notice that may be given can never, unless the parties agree, result in the term of a framework agreement being exceeded, let alone in it being regarded as a tacit extension.
The parties also agree that during the negotiation period and any notice period used, the previously ordered goods will be delivered at the determined price and that the volumes ordered may never exceed the previously achieved turnover.
All sales agreements made between parties and all disputes between parties shall be governed by Belgian law.
In the event of a disagreement or dispute, only the Company Court of Gent, division of Kortrijk, the Court of First Instance of West-Flanders, division of Kortrijk or the Peace Court of Kortrijk, second district, shall be territorially competent.
General terms on the invoice of the purchaser, if any, can never prejudice the aforesaid terms of the seller.