General terms and conditions
Our general terms and conditions apply to deliveries and services provided to entrepreneurs and legal entities under public law. You can view and download them here as a PDF:
Download terms and conditions as PDF
Table of contents
The terms and conditions govern, among other things (as of March 2020):
- Scope
- Terms of sale in commercial business transactions
- Conclusion of contract
- Binding nature of orders from order confirmation onwards
- Long-term and call-off contracts
- Notice periods, price adjustment, target quantities
- Confidentiality
- Protection of documents and knowledge, for 36 months after the end of the business relationship
- Samples & production tooling
- Costs, safekeeping, return periods
- Prices & payment
- Prices plus VAT, packaging and freight; default provisions
- Delivery & transfer of risk
- Delivery ex works, partial deliveries, transfer of risk
- Retention of title
- until all claims have been satisfied
- Material defects
- including in accordance with DIN 6930 (stamped parts), DIN 6935 (cold bending), DIN EN ISO 13920 (welded constructions)
- Liability
- Limitations with the statutory exceptions (intent, gross negligence, product liability, life/body/health)
- Place of jurisdiction & applicable law
- Place of performance and place of jurisdiction Köln, German law, exclusion of the CISG
Only the complete wording of the terms and conditions in the PDF is authoritative.