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Standard Terms of Delivery of the Dutch Association of Suppliers to the Printing and Allied Industries (Vereniging
van Leveranciers voor de Grafische en Aanverwante Industrie)
Filed at the Registry of the District Court in The Hague under number 7/2 001
Kaan Glue-Points general terms and conditions
Article 1 General.
1. Applicability of the standard terms and conditions used by any other party is explicitly dismissed.
2. The present standard terms shall apply to all cases in which a member of the Dutch Association of Suppliers to
the Printing and Allied Industries (hereinafter referred to as "the Supplier") acts as a (potential) seller and/or
supplier of goods and/or services. Any transactions in which the Supplier does not act in his own name but as an
agent of a manufacturer, importer or other supplier shall not be governed by the present terms but by the
principal's standard terms.
3. Any disputes arising between the Supplier and the other party shall be exclusively adjudicated by the competent
court in the Supplier's place of business, unless:
a. any mandatory provisions prescribe otherwise; or
b. the Supplier, as plaintiff or petitioner, chooses for the competent court in the place of business or domicile of
the other party.
4. All legal relationships between the Supplier and the other party shall be governed by Netherlands law.
Article 2 Offers and prices.
Any offers made by the Supplier shall be free of engagement.
Any samples and models shall be provided only for reference purposes.
Any changes in labour costs, cost prices of materials or raw materials and/or exchange rates which relate to the
agreed consideration and which hold good for more than three months from the concluding of a contract shall entitle
the Supplier to pass on such changes, without any further loading.
Article 3 Delivery and costs thereof.
1. Deliveries shall be made free domicile (through delivery). The Supplier shall determine the method of transport
and the insurance to be taken out for the transport. The cost of transport and the insurance premium can be
passed on to the other party. Transport shall be at the risk of the other party.
2. The Supplier shall be entitled to offset any payment to be received from insurers against any debt owed by the
other party, without this having any effect on the stipulated terms of payment.
3. Packaging shall be passed on at cost price, unless the contrary has been explicitly agreed on. Cost price of
packaging shall mean: in the case of resale of goods in packed state, any packaging costs charged to the Supplier
himself and, in the case of goods being packed by the Supplier, the cost of the materials used and the labour
costs made on account of the packaging activities.
4. Any delivery dates agreed on with the Supplier shall be indicative only and shall not be deemed to be firm dates.
5. The Supplier shall be entitled to fulfil any obligation(s) assumed by him in parts.
6. Any parts shall be delivered in accordance with the description given in the order confirmation. If, in urgent
cases, some part is delivered, and it is not certain whether the part is suitable and/or needs adjustment, the risk
of incorrect and/or incomplete delivery shall be borne by the other party. Subsequent deliveries of parts need to
be only be made if the Supplier is able to do so.
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Article 4 Terms of payment.
1. Each invoice sent by the Supplier must be paid by the other party within such period and in such way as stated
on the relevant invoice. Payment must be made at the office of the Supplier, effectively in Dutch currency,
unless a different currency has been agreed on, without any deduction, discount and/or suspension.
2. In case of overdue payment of any invoice, all payment obligations of the other party shall become due and
payable forthwith, whether or not the Supplier has invoiced the other party in respect thereof.
3. In case of overdue payment of any invoice, the other party shall have to pay interest on the invoiced amount
increased, from invoice date, with the statutory interest rate.
4. The supplier is entitled to charge any extrajudicial collection costs to the other party according to the collection
rates used by the Netherlands Bar.
5. Each payment by the other party shall firstly serve as settlement of any extrajudicial collection costs payable by
the other party and of any court costs and shall next be set off against any interest payable by the other party,
and next against the oldest outstanding claims, irrespective of any instructions to the contrary given by the other
party.
6. The other party can raise objections against any invoice only within the term of payment, but not later than 14
days from the invoice date.
7. The supplier is entitled to charge the other party any costs (both present and future costs) which relate to the
contract as a result of government measures in the Netherlands or abroad, unless mandatory law provides
otherwise.
8. The supplier is entitled to charge all import duties, turnover tax and, in general, all taxes and duties to the other
party's account, unless the contract explicitly provides otherwise in respect of certain existing taxes and duties.
In the latter case, the Supplier shall nevertheless be entitled to charge the other party separately with any
subsequent increase in such taxes and duties.
Article 5 Retention of title and other securities.
1. The Supplier shall retain the title to any goods delivered or to be delivered by him, until the following has been
settled to him in full:
2. a. the consideration due by the other party for all goods delivered or to be delivered and all activities performed
or to be performed under the contract;
b. all claims resulting from the other party failing to comply with such contract.
3. The other party shall not be allowed to invoke any right of retention for custody charges, nor to set off such
charges against any considerations it is due.
4. If the other party creates a new good from or partly from the goods referred to in paragraph 1, this shall be
deemed to be a good that the Supplier makes for himself and the other party shall keep such good for the
Supplier as owner, until all obligations referred to in the first paragraph of the present article have been
fulfilled.
5. As long as the title to any good belongs to the Supplier, the other party shall be able to dispose thereof only
within the scope of its ordinary business operations.
6. If the other party fails to fulfil the obligations referred to in the first paragraph of the present article, the
Supplier shall be entitled to take back the goods belonging to him from the place where these are. To that end,
the other party authorizes the Supplier, now for then, to enter the premises being used by the other party. All
costs relating to the taking back of the goods shall be borne by the other party.
7. As security for all that which the Supplier claims or will claim from the other party at any time, the other party
hereby pledges to the Supplier who accepts this pledge, all goods of which the other party will become the (co-
)owner as a result of specification, accession or confusion with the goods delivered and/or to be delivered by the
Supplier.
8. If the Supplier has reasonable cause to fear that the other party will fail to fulfil his obligations and, in any case,
if the other party is declared bankrupt, files a petition for suspension of payments, offers any composition to its
creditors, becomes a ward of court, closes down or liquidates its business or the branch thereof to which the
ordered goods relate, if an attachment is made on the purchased or other goods at the other party's expense, if
the purchased goods are damaged or if the other party fails to fulfil any obligation assumed toward the Supplier
or if it assumes any obligations elsewhere which seriously endanger the fulfilment of any accepted obligations
toward the Supplier, then the Supplier shall have the right, without prejudice to any other rights conferred to
him by law and without any warning being required, to take back the relevant goods, without this leading to
dissolution of the contract, without the Supplier being obliged to refund any payments already received, and
with the right to claim compensation from the other party on account of decrease in value of the goods or for
any other reason.
9. If the Supplier has reasonable cause to fear that the other party will not fulfil its obligations promptly, the other
party shall be obliged, on the Supplier's first demand, to establish satisfactory security forthwith in such form as
demanded by the Supplier, and, if required, to supplement such security, for the fulfilment of all of its
obligations. As long as the other party fails to meet such demand, the Supplier shall be entitled to suspend the
fulfilment of his obligations.
10. In the cases referred to in the present article, the Supplier shall be allowed to take the goods back; the costs of
disassembly, transport and otherwise, as well as the costs of legal assistance, shall be borne by the other party.
11. If the value of the goods taken back by the Supplier must be determined, the valuation shall be carried out by an
expert to be designated by the Supplier. Such valuation shall take into account the price at which, on the day of
retrieval, the Supplier can acquire new goods of the same nature as the retrieved goods; taking the price
referred to as a basis, the valuation shall also take into account the decrease in value resulting from use,
damage, aging and the decrease in saleability of the retrieved goods, for whatever reason.
12. To determine the decrease in saleability, the valuation shall also take into account the costs of an overall
technical inspection to be incurred by the Supplier in the event of a possible resale.
Article 6 Complaints.
1. Unless a warranty has been provided - in which case the provisions of the warranty shall apply - the Supplier shall
be obliged to handle any complaints, only if these have been submitted in writing.
2. Goods cannot be returned to the Supplier without his prior written permission; if this permission is given, the
relevant goods shall be returned carriage paid, unless the Supplier accepts the complaint.
3. Furthermore, any complaint should be submitted as soon as possible, but not later than 7 days from delivery or -
in the case of invisible defects - within 7 days after such defects could reasonably have been detected. The other
party shall be obliged to inspect any delivered goods immediately following delivery.
4. Any claim and defence based on facts justifying the assertion that any delivered good should fall short of the
contract shall be barred by lapse of 1 year from delivery.
5. If any delivered good falls short of the contract, the Supplier shall be bound, at his option, only to deliver that
which is lacking, to repair the delivered good or to replace the delivered good.
Article 7 Liability.
1. The Supplier shall not be liable for any damage which is not attributable to gross negligence or intention on the
part of the Supplier or which has come into being as a result of circumstances that are not at the risk of the
Supplier.
2. The Supplier shall not bear the risk of any damage caused by gross negligence or intention on the part of any
persons called in by the Supplier for the execution of the contract, the unsuitability of any goods used by the
Supplier for the execution of the contract, when any third party exercises one or more of its rights toward the
other party relating to a failure of the other party to meet a contract concluded between the other party and
such third party, nor shall it bear the risk of strikes, lockouts, illness, import, export and/or transit prohibitions,
transport problems, non-fulfilment of obligations by suppliers, interruption of operations, natural and/or nuclear
disasters, war, threat of war and/or civil commotions.
3. The other party shall indemnify the Supplier from and against any compensation, cost, damage and interests
which the Supplier might incur, arising from any claims filed by third parties on account of any defect in any
good delivered by the Supplier to the other party.
