1. Definitions
1.1 The Company: Cagemax and all individuals and entities that work for the Company, as well as all persons for whom the Company might be held liable.
1.2 The Counterparty: the individual or entity with whom the Company has concluded a contract, is in discussion or negotiation or is involved in any other way.
2. Application
2.1 These General Terms and Conditions apply to all agreements concluded by the Company and to all actions performed in connection therewith in as far as the main terms of these agreements and/or any standard-contract terms mentioned therein do not stipulate differently. In case of discrepancy the main contract terms and/or standard-contract terms shall prevail over these General Terms and Conditions.
2.2 Any and all general terms and conditions of the Counterparty are herewith expressly excluded, also in case these exclude the applicability of other general terms and conditions.
2.3 No deviation of these General Terms and Conditions shall be valid unless it is agreed and confirmed in writing.
2.4 Should any clause that forms part of these conditions be void, then all other conditions will remain in force to the fullest extent and the parties shall replace the void clause by a clause that as much as possible resembles the void clause.
3. Offers and Contracts
3.1 Offers made by the Company are non-binding and without obligation.
3.2 Goods sold by the Company shall be for the sole risk and account of the Counterparty as from the moment of their delivery or so much earlier as may be determined in (by) the contract (parity).
3.3 The Counterparty shall not be entitled to suspend any of its obligations under this contract, in connection with (allegations of) non performance by the Company of its obligations under this or any other contract.
3.4 Services performed by the Company outside the scope of the contract are and remain for risk and account of the Counterparty.
4. Payments and collection charges
4.1 Where the Counterparty does not (timely) comply with its payment obligations, an annual interest of 12% will be charged on any outstanding amounts, calculated per day from the due date of the invoice until full payment is received.
4.2. The Counterparty shall have no rights of set-off against any amounts payable to the Company.
4.3 If the Counterparty fails to (timely) comply with its obligations, any and all judicial and extra-judicial costs which may arise in connection therewith shall be borne by the Counterparty.
5. Retention of title
5.1 Title to goods delivered by the Company, respectively documents representing the goods, remains with the Company until all outstanding payments have been received from the Counterparty in full (with respect to goods, respectively documents representing the goods situated in Germany, the German rules and legislation on retention of title apply, on which also see clause 11).
5.2 Goods, respectively documents representing the goods, that are subject to the retention of title may not be transferred as security or pledged.
5.3 This retention of title extends to goods after having been processed, changed or co-mingled and also applies to any moneys or other value (to be) received by or on behalf of the Counterparty in respect of these goods.
6.a Force Majeure
6.a.1 The Company shall not be liable for non-fulfillment of its obligations occasioned by circumstances beyond their control or by Act of God or any other cause comprehended in the term Force Majeure. (and which may include, but not limited to, pandemics and diseases)
6.a.2 The Company shall not be liable for any costs and/or consequenses related to Brexit, whether direct or indirect, and which costs and/or consequenses shall be entirely for the account of the counterparty.
6.b Increase in costs
6.b1 The Company reserves the right to increase the prices of the goods and/or services, or to reduce its commitments in terms of volume, to take account of any change in costs due to (i) increased costs of fuel and/or transport and/or (extended) storage; or (ii) any change in law, regulation, tax, duty, levy or other payment imposed upon the goods and/or services by the European Union or other national government; or (iii) circumstances of hardship and/or significant changes in prices, or reductions in availability of, raw materials, energy, services or other supplies required by the Company.
6.b.2 The Company also reserves the right to terminate, without liability, the contract, the performance of which, as a result of such change, will have a material adverse effect on the Company, which cannot be resolved by an increase in the price.
7. Liability
7.1 Except for gross negligence or intentional fault on the part of the Company, any and all liabilities of the Company are fully excluded.
7.2 If, for whatever reason, there would be liability on the part of the Company, then such liability shall in any case not extend to any indirect and/or consequential damages whatsoever.
7.3 Any and all claims towards the Company will automatically lapse if such claim is not notified to the Company in writing within one week from the date upon which the Counterparty became aware, or should reasonably have become aware, of the existence of any such claim.
Notwithstanding the above, claims with respect to delivered goods will in any case lapse upon the expiry of a period of three months following the date of delivery.
8. Warranty
8.1 The Counterparty warrants that all information, documents, samples, et cetera provided to the Company is/are correct, complete and reliable.
8.2 The Counterparty warrants that the Counterparty and all individuals and entities that work for or in cooperation with the Counterparty comply with statutory safety, health and environmental regulations.
8.3 The Counterparty does not require the data and information as referred to the Regulation (EC No. 767/2009, article 15 under c), d), e), and g) and article 16 papagraph 1(b). Therefore, this information need not be included in the accompanying documents.
9. Sanctions; anti-bribery and corruption; money laundering and the financing of terrorism
9.1. The Counterparty represents and warrants to the Company that neither it, nor any person or entity that owns or controls it, nor any of its subsidiaries, any of its directors, officers or employees nor, to its knowledge, any of its agents and representatives is a designated target of trade sanction rules or regulations (“Sanction Laws”) issued by the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or any other jurisdiction.
9.2. The Counterparty undertakes that for the purposes of a contract between the Counterparty and the Company, no originating country, transit country, destination country, person, entity or payment associated with such contract shall cause the Company to be in a position of non-compliance with Sanction Laws.
9.3. The performance of a contract between the Counterparty and the Company shall have no direct or indirect nexus with Iran, Sudan, Syria, North-Korea, Belarus, the Crimea or Cuba or with any other country which shall be subject to international (trade) sanctions.
9.4. The Counterparty commits to refrain from any practice concerning corruption or bribery.
9.5. The Counterparty commits to refrain from any practice which involves money laundering or the financing of terrorism.
9.6. The Counterparty agrees to unconditionally and timely cooperate with reasonable requests of the Company for information or documentation in order to enable the Company to verify compliance by the Counterparty with this clause 9.
9.7. The performance of obligations under a contract between the Counterparty and the Company shall be suspended upon (a suspected) violation of this clause 9. A breach of the obligations of this clause 9 by the Counterparty shall entitle the Company to early and immediately terminate the contract between the Company and the Counterparty without any liability on the part of the Company.
10. Counterparty’s inability to pay
10.1 If the Counterparty fails to effect timely payment of its debts or compounds with his creditors, or if the Counterparty is subject to measures which can be taken under the applicable law in relation to debtors who are unable or unwilling to pay all their debts, or if the Counterparty were to fail to perform its payment obligations under any agreement with the Company, the Company will be authorized to terminate any and all of the Contracts with the Counterparty, and/or to suspend the Company’s obligations thereunder, this without prejudice to any of the Company’s remaining rights under any contract with the Counterparty.
10.2 If a circumstance as described in the preceding paragraph should occur, the Company will also be entitled to reclaim the documents with immediate effect or to take back the goods forthwith and set off the revenue from the sale of these documents and/or goods against the Counterparty’s debt. Any costs incidental thereto will be for the Counterparty’s account.
11. Applicable law and jurisdiction
11.1 The relation between the Company and the Counterparty will be governed by Dutch law.
11.2 In case a dispute should arise between the Company and the Counterparty, the Commercial Court at Rotterdam, The Netherlands will have exclusive jurisdiction to deal therewith.
11.3 In case the main contract terms and/or any standard-contract terms mentioned therein, both as referred to in article 2.1 above, contain any specific law, jurisdiction and/or arbitration clauses, then the latter specific law, jurisdiction and/or arbitration clauses prevail over articles 10.1 and 10.2 above.
12. Erweitertem und verlängertem Eigentumsvorbehalt
With respect to goods, respectively documents representing goods, and clients situated in Germany, the following specific Eigentumsvorbehalt clause shall apply, and this specific clause shall be governed by German law and the German Courts shall have jurisdiction there over:
Das Eigentum an den gelieferten Waren bleibt zur Sicherung aller Ansprüche vorbehalten, die uns aus der gegenwärtigen und künftigen Geschäftsverbindung bis zum Ausgleich aller Salden gegen den Abnehmer und seine Konzerngesellschaften zustehen. Unser Eigentum erstreckt sich auf die durch Verarbeitung der Vorbehaltsware entstehende neue Sache. Der Abnehmer stellt die neue Sache unter Ausschluss des eigenen Eigentumserwerbs für uns her und verwahrt sie für uns. Hieraus erwachsen ihm keine Ansprüche gegen uns.
Bei einer Verarbeitung unserer Vorbehaltsware mit Waren anderer Lieferanten, deren Eigentumsrechte sich ebenfalls an der neuen Sache fortsetzen,erwerben wir zusammen mit diesen Lieferanten – unter Ausschluss eines Miteigentumserwerbs des Abnehmers - Miteigentum an der neuen Sache, wobei unser Miteigentumsanteil dem Verhältnis des Rechnungswertes unserer Vorbehaltsware zu dem Gesamtrechnungswert aller mitverarbeiteten Vorbehaltswaren.
Der Abnehmer tritt bereits jetzt seine Forderungen aus der Veräußerung von Vorbehaltsware aus unseren gegenwärtigen und künftigen Warenlieferungen mit sämtlichen Nebenrechten im Umfang unseres Eigentumsanteils zur Sicherung an uns ab.
Bei Verarbeitung im Rahmen eines Werksvertrages wird die Werklohnforderung in Höhe des anteiligen Betrages unserer Rechnung für die mitverarbeitete Vorbehaltsware schon jetzt an uns abgetreten.
Solange der Abnehmer seinen Verpflichtungen aus der Geschäftsverbindung an uns ordnungsgemäß nachkommt, darf er über die in unseremEigentum stehende Ware im ordentlichen Geschäftsgang verfügen und die an uns abgetretenen Forderungen selbst einziehen.
Bei Zahlungsverzug oder begründeten Zweifeln an der Zahlungsfähigkeit oder Kreditwürdigkeit des Abnehmers sind wir berechtigt, die abgetretenen Forderungen einzuziehen und die Vorbehaltsware zurückzunehmen.
Scheck-/Wechselzahlungen gelten erst nach Einlösung der Wechsel durch den Abnehmer als Erfüllung.
Hinsichtlich der Vereinbarung von Eigentumsvorbehaltsrechten gilt ausschließlich deutsches Recht.