General Terms and Conditions
ALGEMENE VOORWAARDEN Legro Potgrond
General Terms and Conditions
General Terms and Conditions of De Vereniging van Potgrond- en Substraatfabrikanten Nederland (The Netherlands Association of Potting Soil and Substrate Manufacturers) (VPN Terms and Conditions 2022)
De Vereniging van Potgrond- en Substraatfabrikanten Nederland, with its registered office in ‘s-Gravenzande (municipality of Westland), filed the 2022 version of the General Terms and Conditions on 27 December 2022 at the Registry of the District Court of The Hague under number 2022/37. The General Terms and Conditions have also been filed with the Chamber of Commerce under Chamber of Commerce number 40397216.
ARTICLE 1 – GENERAL
1.1 “Substrate Manufacturer” in these General Terms and Conditions means the members of De Vereniging van Potgrond- en Substraatfabrikanten Nederland. (The association can itself confirm free of charge whether a substrate manufacturer is a member of this association) The association has its registered office in ‘s-Gravenzande (municipality of Westland) and is filed in the Commercial Register under number 40397216.
1.2 In these General Terms and Conditions, “the Other Party” means the party with whom the Substrate Manufacturer enters into a legal relationship.
1.3 In these General Terms and Conditions, “Order” means the fact that an Other Party, after requesting a quotation, orders the delivery of substrate or other products and services, including any advice – free of charge or otherwise.
1.4 “General Terms and Conditions” means the most recent and filed General Terms and Conditions of De Vereniging van Potgrond- en Substraatfabrikanten Nederland, with its registered office in ‘s-Gravenzande (municipality of Westland).
ARTICLE 2 – GENERAL / SCOPE
2.1 The applicability of the General Terms and Conditions used by the Other Party or other conditions is expressly rejected.
2.2 These General Terms and Conditions apply to all legal relationships in which the Substrate Manufacturers act as (potential) sellers or suppliers of goods or services. The Substrate Manufacturer mainly focuses on sales of substrates. Nevertheless, these General Terms and Conditions also form part of any legal relationship that relates in whole or in part to services provided by the Substrate Manufacturer.
2.3 These General Conditions may only be departed from if laid down in writing by both parties or confirmed in writing by the Substrate Manufacturer.
ARTICLE 3 – CONCLUSION OF THE AGREEMENT
When the Other Party places an Order, the agreement shall not come into effect until the Substrate Manufacturer has accepted it in writing or unmistakable commenced its performance.
ARTICLE 4 – SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT
If the Other Party wishes to make changes to what has been agreed – which request must be made in writing only – the Substrate Manufacturer will be obliged to cooperate only if doing so is reasonably practicable and subject to the Other Party’s obligation to bear the additional costs resulting from the change.
ARTICLE 5 – PRICES
5.1 Unless otherwise agreed in writing, all prices are ex-warehouse or where applicable, ex-storage. All prices are exclusive of VAT.
5.2 The Substrate Manufacturer is automatically entitled to pass on future change in labour wages, transport costs, cost prices of raw materials or materials or exchange rate changes not already known at the time of concluding an agreement, which relate to the agreed performance. Passing on such charges within three months after the conclusion of the agreement gives the Other Party the right to dissolve the agreement on those grounds by notifying Substrate Manufacturer of this in writing.
ARTICLE 6 – DELIVERY / DELIVERY TIME
6.1 Delivery times agreed with the Substrate Manufacturer are indicative and not deadlines. In the event of late delivery, the Other Party must therefore give the Substrate Manufacturer written notice of default.
6.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing, delivery shall be ex-warehouse or, if applicable, ex-storage.
6.3 If the Substrate Manufacturer arranges transport, it will also determine the method of transport and insurance during transport, both of which may be charged separately to the Other Party. Transport is at the Other Party’s risk.
6.4 The Substrate Manufacturer is entitled to meet its contractual obligations in parts unless this is expressly contrary to agreements made in writing with the Other Party.
6.5 The Other Party is obliged to take delivery of the purchased goods at the time of delivery. If the Other Party refuses to take delivery or fails to provide the information or instructions necessary for delivery, the goods will be stored at the Other Party’s risk. The Other Party will in that case be liable for the payment of all additional costs, at least including storage and transport costs.
ARTICLE 7 – PAYMENT
7.1 Invoices of the Substrate Manufacturer shall be paid before the due date indicated on the invoice in the manner specified by the Substrate Manufacturer. Payment is to be made in the agreed currency. The Other Party is not entitled to deduct/set off any amounts from the payable invoices on account of an asserted counterclaim. Nor is the Other Party entitled to suspend the fulfilment of its payment obligation if it lodges a complaint with the Substrate Manufacturer regarding the products delivered, unless the Substrate Manufacturer expressly agrees to suspension in exchange for security.
7.2 In the event of late payment, all payment obligations of the Other Party, regardless of whether the Substrate Manufacturer has already invoiced them, shall become immediately due and payable. The Substrate Manufacturer shall notify the Other Party in writing if the Substrate Manufacturer invokes this provision and send an appropriate invoice. In that case, the Substrate Manufacturer is entitled, among other things, to suspend its delivery obligation and may require sufficient security as referred to in Article 9 of these General Terms and Conditions or shall have the right to dissolve the agreement – in part or otherwise – as referred to in Article 13 of these General Terms and Conditions.
7.3 In the event of late payment, the Other Party shall be liable for interest in the amount of the statutory commercial interest rate.
7.4 If the Other Party fails to fulfil one of its obligations or fails to do so on time, in addition to the agreed price and costs, all extrajudicial collection costs shall be borne by the Other Party, which also includes the costs of preparing and sending reminders, making a settlement proposal and gathering information. The extrajudicial costs are calculated according to the scale of extrajudicial collection costs scale (Buitengerechtelijke incassokosten, BIK). If the Substrate Manufacturer proves to have incurred higher costs, these are also eligible for reimbursement.
7.5 To avoid the need for legal proceedings, if the Substrate Manufacturer is held accountable by the Other Party on any grounds whatsoever and the Substrate Manufacturer is thus forced to engage an expert to establish the facts on which the Other Party bases its claim, the Other Party shall be obliged to reimburse the Substrate Manufacturer for the costs charged to the Substrate Manufacturer by this expert if and insofar as the claim or claims of the Other Party, whether or not after invoking the General Conditions, prove to have been unjustified. The Other Party has 7 days to submit claims once the expert’s investigation is completed.
7.6 Payments made by or on behalf of the Other Party shall serve successively to pay the extrajudicial collection costs, the legal costs, the payable interest, and then, in order of age, the outstanding principal sums, regardless of any indication to the contrary by the Other Party.
7.7 The Other Party can only object to the invoice in writing within 14 days of the invoice date.
ARTICLE 8 – RETENTION OF TITLE AND PLEDGE
8.1 Goods delivered by the Substrate Manufacturer remain the property of the Substrate Manufacturer until the Other Party has fulfilled all the following obligations under all purchase agreements concluded with the Substrate
Manufacturer:
– the consideration(s) in respect of item(s) delivered or to be delivered;
– the consideration(s) in respect of services performed or to be performed by theSubstrate Manufacturer under the purchase agreement(s);
– any claims for non-performance of these agreements by the Other Party(s).
8.2. Unless the Substrate Manufacturer stipulates otherwise, the implications under property law of an item destined for export are governed by the law of the country of destination of the item in question if the retention of title under the law of the destination country does not lose its effect until the full price has been paid.
8.3. Goods delivered by the Substrate Manufacturer, subject to retention of title pursuant to paragraph 1 may only be resold in the normal course of business. Furthermore, the Other Party is not authorised to pledge the goods or to establish any other right on them.
8.4. The Substrate Manufacturer hereby reserves, now for then, the rights of pledge referred to in Section 3:237 of the Dutch Civil Code as additional security for claims, other than those referred to in paragraph 1 of this article, that the Substrate Manufacturer may have against the Other Party on any account whatsoever, in respect of goods delivered that have passed into the ownership of the Other Party through payment. The authority provided in this paragraph also applies to items delivered by the Substrate Manufacturer which have been treated or processed by the Other Party, resulting in the Substrate Manufacturer losing its retention of title.
8.5. If the Other Party fails to fulfil its obligations or if there is good cause to presume that will be the case, the Substrate Manufacturer is entitled to repossess or have repossessed the delivered goods to which the retention of title referred to in paragraph 1 applies from the Other Party or from third parties holding the goods for the Other Party. The Other Party is obliged to cooperate in full with this on penalty of a 10% penalty of the daily payable amount.
8.6. If third parties wish to establish or assert any right to the goods delivered under retention of title, the Other Party is obliged to inform the Substrate Manufacturer of this as soon as can reasonably be expected.
8.7. The Other Party undertakes at the Substrate Manufacturer’s first request to
– insure and keep insured the goods delivered under retention of title against fire, explosion and water damage and theft and to make the insurance policy available for inspection;
– pledge all claims of the Other Party against insurers in respect of the goods delivered under retention of title to the Substrate Manufacturer in the manner prescribed in Section 3:239 of the Dutch Civil Code;
– to pledge to the Substrate Manufacturer the claims that the Other Party acquires against its customers when reselling goods delivered by the Substrate Manufacturer under retention of title in the manner prescribed in Section 3:239 of the Dutch Civil Code;
– to mark the goods delivered under retention of title as the property of the Substrate Manufacturer;
– to otherwise cooperate with all reasonable measures the Substrate Manufacturer wishes to take to protect its property rights in respect of the goods and which do not unreasonably hinder the Other Party in the normal conduct of its business.
ARTICLE 9 – SECURITY
9.1 By accepting these General Conditions, the Other Party undertakes to the Substrate Manufacturer to provide (additional) security for all existing and all future claims of the Substrate Manufacturer against the Other Party, on whatever grounds, at the Substrate Manufacturer’s first request, to the satisfaction of the Substrate Manufacturer. This must always be designed, and if necessary replaced or supplemented by the Other Party to the satisfaction of the Substrate Manufacturer, that the Substrate Manufacturer has satisfactory and sufficient security on an ongoing basis. The substrate manufacturer is entitled to suspend compliance with its obligations for as long as the Other Party has not complied with the above.
9.2 If the Other Party has not complied with a request as referred to in paragraph 1 within 14 days of a written demand to that effect, all its obligations shall become immediately due and payable.
ARTICLE 10 – COMPLAINTS, DUTY TO INVESTIGATE, PRESCRIPTION TERM AND PERFORMANCE
10.1 The Other Party is obliged to examine upon delivery and within 24 hours at the latest after delivery (if not possible otherwise by random sampling) to ascertain what has been delivered complies with the agreement i.e.: – whether the right articles have been delivered;
– whether the delivered goods comply with the agreement in terms of quantity (e.g. number and quantity);
– whether the delivered goods meet the agreed quality requirements or – if these are lacking – the requirements that may be set for normal use or commercial purposes;
If this is not the case and the Other Party does not inform the Substrate Manufacturer of this in writing within eight days, the Other Party shall forfeit all rights in respect of non-compliance relating to the non-compliance of what has been delivered with the agreement. If the Substrate Manufacturer does not receive written notification within eight days that what has been delivered does not comply with the agreement, it shall be deemed between the parties as proof that what has been delivered complies with the agreement.
10.2 Claims and defences based on facts or assertions to the effect that what has been delivered does not comply with the agreement shall lapse one year after delivery. Claim rights of the Other Party expire 1.5 years after delivery.
10.3 If the delivered goods do not comply with the agreement, the Substrate Manufacturer shall, at its discretion, only be obliged to deliver the missing goods, repair the delivered goods or replace the delivered goods.
10.4 The provisions of this article apply mutatis mutandis to the provision of services, with the proviso that both the period of one day after delivery referred to in paragraph 1 and the period of eight days referred to in paragraph 1 in the case of services shall relate to one month after completion of the provision of services.
ARTICLE 11 – FIGURES, MEASUREMENTS, WEIGHTS AND OTHER DATA
11.1 Minor deviations concerning stated dimensions, weights, numbers, colours and other such data are not deemed to be deficiencies.
11.2 A minor deviation is defined as a margin of up to 10% more or less than the stated specification. Samples shown or provided are indicative only.
11.3 Samples shown or provided are for indicative purposes only, without it being necessary for an item that is the subject of a contract of sale or service to correspond to them.
11.4 The substrates to be supplied comply with the quality requirements or standards set by Dutch laws and regulations. Insofar as the items delivered in the Netherlands are to be used outside the Netherlands, the Other Party is responsible for ensuring that the substrates to be delivered meet the quality requirements or standards set in the country concerned unless otherwise agreed.
Any other quality requirements imposed by the Other Party on the goods to be delivered that deviate from the usual standards must also be explicitly reported by the Other Party when concluding the purchase agreement.
ARTICLE 12 – PACKAGING
- The Other Party is obliged to return loaned packaging within the period stipulated in the agreement or, if there is no such period, at the Substrate Manufacturer’s request within a reasonable period of time, empty and in undamaged condition. If the Other Party fails to fulfil its obligations concerning the loaned packaging, all costs resulting from this shall be for its account. Such costs include those arising from late returns and replacement, repair or cleaning costs. 8
- If the Other Party does not return loaned packaging after a reminder within the period specified in the first paragraph, the Substrate Manufacturer shall be entitled to proceed to replace the loaned packaging in question and charge the costs thereof, provided that the Substrate Manufacturer has referred to these steps in its reminder.
ARTICLE 13 – NON-PERFORMANCE
13.1 The claims of Substrate Manufacturer against the Other Party shall be immediately due and payable if:
– after the conclusion of the agreement, circumstances come to Substrate Manufacturer’s knowledge that give good cause to presume that the Other Party will not fulfil its obligations
– the Substrate Manufacturer has requested the Other Party to provide security for fulfilment, and such security is not forthcoming within the specified period or is insufficient.
– the Other Party is declared bankrupt, applies for a suspension of payments, requests the application of the debt restructuring for natural persons or is subjected to an attachment of all or part of its property.
In those cases, the Substrate Manufacturer shall be entitled to suspend further performance of the agreement or to dissolve the agreement, without prejudice to the right to claim damages.
13.2 The Substrate Manufacturer shall be entitled to dissolve the agreement if circumstances arise concerning persons or equipment the Substrate Manufacturer uses in the performance of the agreement of such a nature that the performance of the agreement becomes impossible or so onerous or disproportionate that fulfilment of the obligation under the agreement can no longer reasonably be required.
13.3 Force majeure means circumstances which prevent the fulfilment of the obligation and which cannot be attributed to the Substrate Manufacturer.
This includes (if and to the extent such circumstances make performance impossible or unreasonably onerous): fire, strikes in companies other than those of the Substrate Manufacturer, wildcat strikes or political strikes in the Substrate Manufacturer’s company; a general lack of necessary raw materials and other items or services required for the realisation of the agreed performance; epidemics or pandemics possible quality problems affecting the Substrate Manufacturer or Substrate Manufacturer’s supplier, unforeseeable stagnation among suppliers or other third parties on which the Substrate Manufacturer depends and general transport problems.
13.4 The Substrate Manufacturer shall also be entitled to invoke force majeure if the circumstance preventing (further) fulfilment occurs after the Substrate Manufacturer should have fulfilled its obligations.
13.5 During force majeure, the Substrate Manufacturer’s delivery and other obligations shall be suspended. If the period in which fulfilment of the obligations by the Substrate Manufacturer is not possible due to force majeure lasts longer than 48 hours, both parties are authorised to dissolve the agreement without any obligation to pay compensation in that case.
13.6 If the Substrate Manufacturer has already partially fulfilled its obligations when the force majeure occurs, or can only partially fulfil its obligations, it shall be entitled to invoice the part already delivered or the deliverable part separately, and the Other Party shall be obliged to pay this invoice as if it were a separate contract. However, this does not apply if the part already delivered or deliverable has no independent value.
ARTICLE 14 – LIABILITY AND DAMAGES
14.1 The Substrate Manufacturer shall make every effort to deliver substrate that is free of quantities of organisms harmful to humans, animals or plants. Growth media, especially organic growth media and their components, contain a wide range of beneficial microorganisms essential for their functionality. Therefore, they are not sterile and the occurrence of common human pathogens cannot be ruled out. Microorganisms may be indigenous or colonise growing media during storage or cultivation, depending on the season and growing conditions. By far the largest percentage of all growing media contains high percentages of organic matter that is naturally exposed to microbial degradation by fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes and other organisms. Saprophytic organisms may be present in small numbers in growth media. The addition of nutrients and lime can promote the growth of saprophytic organisms. Therefore, the presence of saprophytic organisms and their effects, such as fungi, does not constitute a non-conformity in the substrate.
The Substrate Manufacturer’s liability is excluded if the damage occurs:
(a) due to incompetent use or use contrary to the intended purpose of the delivered goods or the instructions, (cultivation) advice, directions for use and so on provided by or on behalf of the Substrate Manufacturer;
(b) due to the substrate becoming unusable due to fungi or any microbiological activity or organic action otherwise;
(c) due to the common colonisation of micro-organisms, as well as by the common presence of saprophytic organisms;
(d) due to improper preservation (storage) of the delivered substrate;
(e) due to errors or omissions in the data, documents or materials provided or prescribed to the Substrate Manufacturer by or on behalf of the Other Party;
(f) due to directions or instruction from or on behalf of the Other Party;
(g) because the Other Party has requested the Substrate Manufacturer, outside the standard range of the Substrate Manufacturer, to add components (whether or not processed by the Substrate Manufacturer) to or mix them into the substrate;
(h) due to other work, processing, treatment or adjustments being performed by or on behalf of the Other Party on the delivered goods (including drying of the growing media) without the express prior consent of the Substrate Manufacturer.
14.2 Any form of oral or written advice by the Substrate Manufacturer is given from the best available knowledge and based on the Substrate Manufacturer’s experience.
14.3 If the Substrate Manufacturer has failed imputably in the fulfilment of any of its obligations or has committed a wrongful act towards the Other Party, the Substrate Manufacturer shall only be liable to the Other Party for damages it has suffered in that connection if the Other Party proves that this damage is due to the intentional act or gross negligence of the Substrate Manufacturer or its managerial subordinates.
14.4 If the liability of the Substrate Manufacturer is to be assumed under Article 14.3, liability shall be limited to a maximum of the amount of the purchase price (excluding VAT). If the agreement consists of partial deliveries, the obligation to pay compensation is limited to a maximum of the purchase price of the respective partial delivery. The liability of The Substrate Manufacturer for indirect damage, such as, but explicitly not limited to; (growth) damage to crops, trading losses, stagnation damage, personal or bodily injury, lost profit and lost turnover, is excluded.
14.5 Notwithstanding the above, the total liability of the Substrate Manufacturer shall be limited to the amount of the payment made by the insurer plus the Substrate Manufacturer’s deductible. The Substrate Manufacturer will provide a copy of its business liability insurance at the Other Party’s request.
14.6 The Other Party shall indemnify the Substrate Manufacturer and the (auxiliary) persons engaged by it in the performance of its obligations against all claims of third parties on account of damage suffered by these third parties arising from or related to the Substrate Manufacturer’s performance of the agreement or delivery of the substrate unless there is intent or gross negligence on the part of the Substrate Manufacturer or the (auxiliary) persons it has engaged in the performance of the agreement. In case of intent or gross negligence on the part of the Substrate Manufacturer or the (auxiliary) persons engaged by it in the performance of the agreement, the Other Party shall indemnify the Substrate Manufacturer or the (auxiliary) persons engaged against such claims for the part that exceeds the amount of the payment made by the Substrate Manufacturer’s liability insurer, increased by the Substrate Manufacturer’s deductible.
14.7 The right of the Other Party to dissolve all or part of the agreement with the Substrate Manufacturer in the event of an attributable breach by the Substrate Manufacturer is excluded.
ARTICLE 15 – APPLICABLE LAW AND COMPETENT COURT
15.1 All national and international legal relationships between the Substrate Manufacturer and the Other Party shall be governed by Dutch law. The applicability of the Vienna Sales Convention 1980 (CISG) is excluded. 15.2 Notwithstanding any non-mandatory law applicable to the legal relationship between the Substrate Manufacturer and the Other Party, all disputes between the Substrate Manufacturer and the Other Party shall be submitted to the Dutch court with absolute jurisdiction to the exclusion of other courts. Notwithstanding any non-mandatory provisions of law between the parties, the court of the Substrate Manufacturer’s place of business shall have relative jurisdiction, to the exclusion of all other courts. However, the Substrate Manufacturer is entitled to seek another relatively competent judicial authority if it initiates proceedings as a plaintiff or applicant. 12
ARTICLE 16 – CONVERSION
If and insofar as any provision or part of any provision in these General Terms and Conditions cannot be invoked due to conflict with applicable law, that provision shall have the meaning that corresponds as far as possible, in terms of content and purport, to what was intended when the relevant (partial) provision was drafted, so that it can still be invoked by the parties.
ARTICLE 17 – DUTCH TEXT PREVAILS
These General Terms and Conditions have been drawn up for use in national and international agreements. As part of this, these General Terms and Conditions will also be translated from Dutch into other languages. If the parties disagree on the interpretation of a non-Dutch version of these General Terms and Conditions, the Dutch text of these General Terms and Conditions of Sale shall prevail over any translations thereof.
ARTICLE 18 – AMENDMENT OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
18.1 The Substrate Manufacturer is entitled to unilaterally amend these General Terms and Conditions with due regard to the requirements of reasonableness and fairness. Amendments shall also apply in respect of agreements already concluded as far as it concerns obligation(s) under the agreement to which the Substrate Manufacturer has committed itself and which have not yet been fulfilled in full or in part.
18.2 The Substrate Manufacturer will inform the Other Party of the amendments by e-mail. The amended General Terms and Conditions will take effect 30 days after the Other Party has been informed of the amendments.
18.3 If the Other Party disagrees with the announced changes, the Other Party has the right to dissolve the agreement.
General Terms and Conditions
General conditions of delivery of Legro Mushrooom Casing Solutions
General conditions of delivery of Legro Mushrooom Casing Solutions registered at the Chamber of Commerce in Venlo, the Netherlands under number 12028787.
1. General
1.1 These conditions apply to all offers made and agreements entered into by Legro Mushrooom Casing Solutions (hereinafter ‘Legro’) and all deliveries of products and services arising therefrom (hereinafter ‘products’). The applicability of general conditions used by the purchaser is explicitly excluded.
1.2 Varying clauses can only be agreed in writing and do not apply until they have been explicitly confirmed in writing by Legro.
1.3 Insofar as these general conditions have also been drawn up in another language than the Dutch language, the Dutch text will always prevail in case of differences.
2. Offers and formation of an agreement
2.1 All offers and other information provided by Legro are without obligation.
2.2 An agreement is only concluded when Legro has confirmed the order in writing.
2.3 Upon or after the conclusion of the agreement, Legro shall be entitled, prior to (further) performance, to demand security from the buyer that payment obligations as well as other obligations arising from this agreement shall be fulfilled. Refusal by the buyer to provide the requested security, shall entitle Legro to suspend its obligations and shall eventually entitle it to dissolve the agreement wholly or in part without notice of defaultor judicial intervention, without prejudice to its right to compensation of any damage or loss sustained by it.
3. Prices
3.1 Unless stated otherwise, all quotations are made subject to price changes.
3.2 Prices and rates are in Euro and exclusive of packaging and transport costs, costs of additional activities, storage costs, costs of quality control and plant-health inspection and any taxes and other costs or levies and exclusive of Dutch VAT, unless stated otherwise.
3.3 Legro shall not be liable for customs duties or other local taxes or import duties or taxes which may apply in the buyer’s country.
3.4 The stated price is based on the purchase price and other cost factors, such as currency rates, wages, taxes, and so forth. When one of these cost price elements is increased after the formation of the agreement but prior to the delivery, Legro shall be entitled to charge on these increases in all reasonableness.
3.5 The prices only apply to the products referred to in the agreements. All goods and services supplied by third parties that have been called in, shall be charged separately at the prices that apply on the day of delivery, or the provision of services, as the case may be.
4. Delivery
4.1 Insofar as not agreed upon otherwise in writing, all deliveries shall take place ex works (EXW, Incoterms 2000), Wanssum, the Netherlands.
4.2 The periods of delivery stated shall never apply as deadlines. Legro shall not be in default in respect of the delivery period sooner than after it has been given notice of default in writing by the buyer, who has given Legro the opportunity to deliver after all within a reasonable period of time and Legro has not complied.
4.3 The period of delivery shall start on the date on which Legro has confirmed the order in writing or if it is later, on the date on which buyer has put the necessary information and any agreed payment securities into the possession of Legro.
4.4 Delivery shall be taken to mean the delivery of the entire order, unless partial deliveries have been agreed upon, whereby in such a case each partial delivery is to be viewed as a delivery.
4.5 Also if expressly agreed upon that Legro or third parties called in by it shall take care of the transport of the products, the risk of transport shall lie with the buyer, and the costs of the transport shall be borne by the buyer.
4.6 From the time of delivery, the buyer shall be liable for all risks and damage or loss of any nature whatsoever, which could occur to the products, such as theft, fire, water damage, acts of war, or damage and contamination by germs, parasites, temperature and germ damage.
4.7 Legro shall not liable for loss or damage due to overdue delivery, if and insofar as this overdue delivery is attributable to circumstances which are not at the expense and risk of Legro, including non-performance or overdue performance by Legro’s suppliers.
4.8 The buyer shall be obliged to take delivery of the products. In the event that delivery of the products has not been taken on the date notified to the buyer for whatever reason, Legro shall have the right to (have others) sell the products and to recover any loss from the buyer, or to (have others) store the products wherever at the expense and risk of the buyer.
4.9 Within the framework of the care that is to be exercised by Legro, it is fitting that if contagious diseases are found or suspected at buyer’s company, which could be harmful to Legro and to other buyers, Legro shall be entitled to discontinue the delivery.
5. Payment
5.1 Unless agreed upon otherwise, payments are to be effected within 14 days after the date on the invoice in the currency agreed upon into a bank account that is to be designated by Legro and without any deduction or set-off.
5.2 The value date on which Legro receives the payment shall count as the date of payment. In the event of payment by bank, the date on which Legro’s bank account is credited shall count as the date of payment.
5.3 If the offer and invoicing have not been effected in Euro, Legro shall have the right to charge exchange rate differences on to buyer.
5.4 In the event that an order is carried out in parts, Legro shall be entitled to demand payment for the partial deliveries, prior to performing the remaining partial deliveries.
5.5 If the payment term is exceeded, buyer shall be in default by operation of law and Legro shall be entitled to charge statutory interest for commercial transactions as per the due date, while also all costs related to the collection shall be borne by the buyer, court costs as well as out-of-court costs, the latter of which are set at a minimum of 15% of the amount that is to be collected.
5.6 Each payment by the buyer shall first serve to pay the interest owed by it to Legro as well as the costs incurred by Legro, including collection charges and subsequently the oldest due and payable invoices, even if the buyer states that the payment is related to a later invoice date.
5.7 In the event of overdue payment by buyer, Legro shall be entitled to suspend any further delivery to buyer until it has paid all invoices, increased by costs and interest. In the event of any loss or damage, refusal to take delivery or other possible disputes, the buyer shall remain obliged to pay the invoice.
6. Retention of title
6.1 The ownership of the products delivered by Legro shall not pass to the buyer before full payment of all amounts invoiced by Legro plus any interest, penalty and costs as well as all claims on account of the buyer’s failures to fulfil its obligations arising from this agreement or other agreements.
6.2 If Legro cannot invoke its retention of title as a result of mixing, deformation or accession of its products, buyer shall be obliged to pledge the
products into which Legro’s products have been processed to Legro.
6.3 Legro shall be entitled to immediately take back the products sold if the buyer is in default in any way of fulfilling its payment obligations. In that case the buyer shall be obliged to provide Legro access to its grounds and its building
for this purpose. In dat geval is de koper verplicht Legro Mushroom Casing Solutions daartoe toegang te verlenen op zijn terreinen en in zijn gebouwen.
6.4 Buyer is to store the products subject to a retention of title separately from the other products, this in order to be able to continue distinguishing Legro’s products.
6.5 As long as the delivered products are subject to retention of title, buyer may not alienate, encumber, pledge or otherwise put these under the control of third parties outside its normal business operations. The buyer, however, shall not be permitted to alienate the products within the framework of its normal business operations at the time when suspension of payment(s) has been applied for by the buyer or the buyer has been declared insolvent.
7. Performance by third parties
7.1 Without permission from buyer being necessary, Legro shall be entitled to contract out the order wholly or in part to third parties in order to be able to fulfil its obligations arising from the agreement.
8. Complaints
8.1 Buyer shall be obliged to inspect the products upon delivery for visible and/or directly observable defects. By not complying with the duty to inspect the buyer shall lose any possible claims on Legro.
8.2 Complaints concerning the products delivered are to be submitted in writing, and forthwith but no later than 24 hours following delivery on penalty of the lapse of rights. Defects which can only be discovered at a later stage (non-visible defects) are to be made known to Legro immediately upon discovery. The complaint is to contain a description of the defect and upon first request Legro is to be given the opportunity to investigate the complaint.
8.3 The buyer is to permit that Legro has the inspection of the products concerned carried out by an expert or an independent testing institute, also to ascertain that the products delivered by Legro and rejected by the buyer are the same. Upon the declaration that the complaint is valid by the expert, the costs of the inspection shall be borne by Legro. If not declared valid the costs shall be borne by the buyer. The expert’s judgment shall not be binding, unless parties agree otherwise in writing in advance.
8.4 Complaints may only be made valid with regard to products which are still in the possession of the buyer and in the condition in which they were delivered.
8.5 Complaints concerning a part of what has been delivered may not be a reason for rejection by buyer of the whole delivery.
8.6 If the buyer has notified a complaint to Legro in a timely fashion and Legro has recognized the complaint, then at its discretion Legro shall only be held to a (partially) replacing delivery or return of a proportional part of the purchase price.
8.7 By submitting a complaint the buyer’s obligation to pay shall not be suspended, unless Legro expressly agrees to such a suspension.
8.8 Without Legro’s prior written permission, return shipments shall never be allowed.
9. Liability
9.1 In the event of an attributable shortcoming in the performance of the agreement Legro’s liability shall at all times be limited to no more than an amount equal to the net invoice value of the products delivered or the part of the net invoice value with regard to which the claim for damages is directly or indirectly related.
9.2 Except in the event of statutory liability based on mandatory provisions and except in the event of an intentional act or ommission or gross negligence, any liability of Legro for any other form of loss or damage shall be excluded, including any direct or indirect loss, consequential loss, loss of profits or loss as a result of the absence of sufficient production results and loss caused by any contamination with bacterial and viral diseases and pollution, pesticides/herbicides/fungicides, growth and germ inhibitive substances as well as other possible affects.
9.3 On account of the natural nature of the products differences in quality may occur. Legro shall make an effort to eliminate and avoid these differences in quality as much as possible but may not be held liable for these differences and the possible consequences thereof.
9.4 The buyer shall hold Legro harmless against third-party claims for the compensation of loss or damage for which Legro is not liable pursuant to these conditions.
9.5 All limitations of liability and indemnifications stipulated by Legro shall also apply to its subordinates and the auxiliaries called in by it.
9.6 In the event of a loss or damage buyer shall be obliged, as a prudent debtor, to ensure the conservation of the products and to limit the loss or damage as much as possible to prevent further worsening of the products. The buyer’s legal claim for damages vis-à-vis Legro shall become time-barred by the lapse of one year after the buyer has protested in the matter.
10. Force majeure
10.1 In the event of force majeure Legro, at its discretion, shall have the right to dissolve the agreement, wholly or in part, by mere written notification without judicial intervention and without being liable for any compensation, or to suspend the performance of the agreement until the time when an end has come to the force majeure situation.
10.2 Force majeure shall in any case be taken to mean delayed delivery of ordered materials, transport problems, fire, mechanical and other operational failures, power supply interruptions, government measures, including in any case import and export limitations and/or trade prohibitions, international conflicts, quota restrictions, as well as attributable failures to perform by suppliers and/or by third parties called in by Legro as a result of which Legro is not (any longer) reasonably able to fulfil its obligations to buyer.
10.3 If Legro has partly fulfilled its obligations at the time of the occurrence of force majeure, Legro shall be entitled to invoice the delivered products separately and early, and buyer shall be held to pay these invoices as if it concerned a separate agreement.
11. Suspension and dissolution
11.1 If the buyer fails to fulfil the obligations arising for it from the concluded agreement, or fails to fulfil them in time or properly, or if there is a well-founded fear of this, as well as in the event of the buyer’s insolvency or suspension of payment(s) or in the event of a halt, sale or liquidation of its company, Legro shall be entitled to suspend the performance of the agreement by a reasonable term, or to dissolve the agreement without Legro being liable for any compensation.
11.2 Legro’s receivables concerning the part of the agreement already performed, as well as the loss, including lost profit, resulting from the suspension or dissolution, shall be due and payable forthwith.
12. Applicable law / competent court
12.1 Dutch law shall apply exclusively to all agreements concluded by Legro with the exclusion of the Vienna Sales Convention.
12.2 All disputes shall be settled exclusively by the competent court in the jurisdiction within which Legro’s place of business is located. However, Legro reserves the right to turn to another competent court or refer the dispute to an arbitrator.
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