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General Terms & Conditions
of the group companies of
Austria Juice GmbH

These T&Cs are applicable for Austria Juice GmbH  and all other group companies in which AJ holds (directly or indirectly) a majority interest

I. Applicability
(1) Contracts for Sale and/or Deliveries are subject to these Terms and Conditions.
(2) Any purchasing conditions of the Customer’s are hereby contradicted and shall not become part of the contract.
(3) Any exclusion of these Terms and Conditions, or any amendment and/or addition thereto, shall only be effective if we have expressly indicated our consent in writing.

II. Conclusion of contract and volumes
(1) A contract shall be deemed to have been concluded when the Customer’s order has been confirmed in writing by ourselves; oral agreements shall not be valid. The contract languages shall be German and English only; contracts in any other language shall not be valid.
(2) Prior offers, tenders etc. which are drawn up and communicated by ourselves shall be without obligation, except where they are expressly indicated in writing as being binding for a particular period of time.
(3) Volumes and prices and product specifications will be firmly agreed upon for a single delivery or a definite contract term with a possibility for call-offs by the customer (“contract”). Prices and volume con only be changed by explicit agreement. If a customer has not taken a balance of a volume we are entitled, but not obliged, to rescind the contract and claim damages for nonperformance.
(4) In contracts the customer is entitled to make written call-offs with adequate lead time which has to be confirmed by us; we are entitled to suspend performance of a delivery, if the customer would be beyond the credit limit or the insurance company decreases the credit limit. This suspension can be upheld until the insured credit limit is reached again.

III. Prices and Payment
(1) The prices are to be read as net prices without any deduction, free carrier (FCA) Austria Juice/Kroellendorf plant, except where other conditions may have been agreed in writing.
(2) Our invoices are to be paid without delay and without any deduction. The invoices are to be paid in a way that the amount is credited to our account in full on the last day of maturity. When payment periods are exceeded, statutory interest and monition fees, bill charges and collection expenses shall be borne by the Customer.
(3) Payments received from the Customer shall, at our discretion, either be credited to the longest-due claim(s) or credited to claims in respect of deliveries of goods which have already been processed or re-sold. The Customer is obliged to inform us, within 48 hours of our written request for such information, whether a particular consignment of goods supplied by ourselves has already been processed or re-sold.
(4) Shipping and other packaging materials will not be taken back by ourselves, and the Customer is obliged to ensure proper and correct disposal of such materials. This provision does not apply to multi-trip tanks and Euro-pallets (multi-trip receptacles). The multi-trip receptacles remain our property and may not be re-sold by the Customer; they are merely loaned to the Customer by ourselves. They must be reported as ready for dispatch within a maximum of 30 days of the date of the delivery, and held in readiness for collection. After the expiry of this period, we shall be entitled - at our discretion - either to invoice the Customer for the replacement value of the receptacles or to charge reasonable compensation for the period during which the receptacles were not available for our use. If the receptacles have been damaged, we shall be entitled to charge for the diminution in value caused by such damage. If the receptacles have been used for any purpose other than that for which they are intended, we shall make a charge to cover the costs of cleaning and repair.
(5) Customers are insured with a credit insurance company. If the credit insurance company decreases the limit, we will inform the Customer and any invoices are due to be paid immediately. Any contracts will only be performed, if by the open credit amounts of the invoices the insurance limit is not exceeded.

IV. Offsetting and withholding
It is not permitted to offset any amount against, or withhold any amount from, any claim of ours. Any claims of the Customer are to be claimed in separate proceedings.

V. Delivery
(1) Unless otherwise agreed in the order confirmation, delivery shall be free carrier (FCA) Ybbstaler/Kroellendorf plant. All shipping costs shall be borne by the Customer.
(2) Not only in the above case [per V.(1)], but also where other delivery terms are agreed than in V.(1) above and where the goods are dispatched using a customary mode of shipping (rail, post, forwarding agent, carrier etc.), the price risk shall pass to the Customer when the goods are handed over to the carrier, and in any event no later than when the goods leave the plant or the warehouse. The Customer shall consent to any customary mode of shipping.
(3) The delivery time in each case shall be agreed in a separate contract. Delivery times will be adhered to by ourselves. If, for whatever reason, it should not be possible to deliver by the specified time, we shall notify the Customer a reasonable time before the delivery date. We customer will allow an adequate grace period for delivery. This delay shall not constitute sufficient grounds for cancellation of the contract. The Customer waives damages for late delivery.
(4) In the case of multiple delivery contracts or global contracts, the Customer must give advance notice of the probable delivery scheme at least 21 (twentyone) days prior to the commencement of the agreed delivery period. The Customer must then give notice of the exact date and time of collection 7 (seven) days in advance. If the Customer fails to give such advance notice, then we shall specify the delivery dates ourselves and notify the Customer of these dates.
(5) If the Customer fails to collect the goods by the agreed time, the risk shall pass to the Customer at the end of the day agreed for collection. We shall store the goods at the Customer’s expense and risk, and shall charge the Customer a reasonable amount by way of compensation for storing the goods. Our liability in this respect shall be limited to that for gross negligence only, and we shall accept no responsibility for any changes which may occur in the goods as a result of handling and storage. The same shall apply in any and every case of delayed acceptance, where the Customer shall indemnify us for all costs, expenses and damage resulting from the delayed acceptance or the failure to take delivery.
(6) In cases where our contractual obligations are performed in agreed installments, the fact that one such delivery installment may be delayed shall not entitle the Customer to cancel the contract with respect to the remaining installments, which shall thus be transacted as originally agreed in the multiple delivery contract.
(7) Specimens or samples which may be sent to the Customer are merely intended to give the Customer an approximate idea of the product. Particular properties of the specimen or sample shall only be deemed to be assured in specific cases where this has been expressly agreed.
(8) Qualitative deviations from the order shall be accepted by the Customer, within the customary tolerance limits, if they are attributable to crop-related fluctuations or to the nature of the goods supplied, or if they are within the testresult replicability range. The agreed Brix content of the goods is merely a guideline value which may be exceeded or undershot by up to 0.5 degrees Brix without thereby giving grounds for claims by the Customer. The deliveries are made in compliance with the provisions of Austrian foodstuffs legislation.
As the goods supplied are - by their very nature - unique, it cannot be guaranteed that they can be replaced by goods with identical characteristics.
(9) In quantitative terms (i.e. as regards weight), deliveries are deemed to be fulfilled if the net shipping weight, as measured at the time of dispatch from our plant on an officially calibrated weighing machine, corresponds to the agreed delivery quantity. These data will be documented by the weighing certificate on request. No other measurements will be accepted.
(10) We sell our goods subject to the proviso that we have ourselves received correct and timely deliveries. The Customer may not demand the assignment of any rights arising from the purchasing contracts signed with our own suppliers.
(11) The Customer is obliged to store the goods delivered by ourselves in a suitable and proper manner. Where so requested, the Customer shall provide us with proof, within 48 hours, that the goods are being stored properly. If such proof is not provided on request, then any change in the goods which may be a result of incorrect or improper storage shall be irrefutably presumed to be a result of the Customer’s not having stored the goods correctly.

VI. Retention of title
(1) The goods shall remain our property until payment has been received in full.
(2) In cases where the goods to which we retain title have been processed, mixed or combined with materials owned by the customer, it is agreed that this shall not cause our title to lapse, but shall result in co-ownership in proportion to the respective contributions made to the item thereby created. The Customer even now assigns us its resulting co-ownership share as security for our remaining purchase-price claim, and grants us full preferential rights, meaning that we are permitted to privately sell the item as a whole. The Customer shall take appropriate steps to ensure the efficacy of these security precautions and shall notify the third party of these precautions where this is necessary for legally valid conclusion of an agreement. The Customer shall hold the new stock or the new item for us in trust, free of charge.
(3) Goods that were supplied to the Customer subject to retention of title may be re-sold by the Customer. The Customer itself is obliged to retain title when delivering to its own customers, and even now assigns to us all receivables which may accrue to it from any re-sale of the item to a third party, regardless of whether the goods subject to retention of title are sold to one or more customers and of whether or not they have been processed, mixed or combined with other materials. The Customer shall notify the third party hereof, as well as taking the necessary steps to ensure the efficacy of these security precautions; moreover, the Customer shall be obliged to identify the customers of the goods subject to retention of title, in writing, when so requested.
(4) If the legal system in whose jurisdictional territory the goods are located, and which is being applied, does not admit any retention of title, and this legal system still permits the retention of other rights in the claimed goods (especially the right to assign claims), then we shall be entitled to exercise these rights, at our option and without any limitation. The Customer shall see to it that these security precautions are agreed in an effective manner.
(5) The Customer is not entitled to make any other dispositions regarding the goods subject to retention of title, in particular trust receipt transactions or pledging.
(6) The Customer is obliged to store the goods owned by ourselves in a correct and proper manner, to treat them carefully and to stock them separately from its own goods and from those of other owners; in particular, it is obliged to insure these at its own expense against fire, water and theft, at replacement value, and the respective insurance policies are to be vinculated (placed under transfer restrictions) in our favor.

VII. Warranty, liability
(1) With ex-works deliveries, the critical point in time for determining the contract-compliant status of the goods is the time at which the goods are handed over, as agreed, to the carrier. In the case of deliveries for which we organize the shipping ourselves, the critical point in time for determining the contract-compliant status of the goods is the time of factual handover of the products.
(2) The Customer is obliged to perform, or arrange for the performance of, proper inspection of the delivered goods , especially by a laboratory, immediately after the point in time defined in VII.(1) above, and to submit a written complaint about all defects immediately after such inspection, but no later than five working days after receipt of the goods. The Customer must describe the defects. Defects that cannot be detected in the course of immediate inspection must be notified as soon as they are discovered, but no later than 25 days after receipt of the goods. If a defect should become apparent, the Customer shall refrain from processing or converting the goods, and shall ensure that no alteration whatever takes place in the goods. The Customer must store and handle these goods properly and correctly. If no complaint is made regarding defects (including concealed defects) prior to the commencement of processing or converting, the goods shall be deemed to have been approved.
(3) Where defects are not notified until after the end of the 25-day deadline from the time of receipt, or where the goods started to be processed or converted before the complaint was raised, any and all liability, on whatever legal ground, shall be excluded.
(4) The Customer grants us the right to replace defective goods for goods which are defect-free. The Customer has no right to any immediate price reduction, or to cancel the sale. Where we remedy a defect by replacing the defective goods, we shall bear the costs and expenses only up to the amount of the net sales price. Any costs over and above this amount shall be borne by the Customer. Attention is drawn to the provision in VIII (3) below.
(5) Where a contract is fulfilled in installments (multiple delivery contract), the Parties expressly agree that any defects in one or more delivery installments shall only entitle the Customer to assert warranty claims with respect to the defective delivery installments. The remaining installments shall not be affected and shall be transacted as provided by the multiple delivery contract.
(6) A claim resting upon warranty claims of the Customer’s must be asserted within six months of the date of delivery, at the competent court of justice. Moreover, in cases where we bring a legal action in pursuit of any claim of ours, the fact that there may be counter-claims resting upon warranty claims shall only be admissible as a defense against our claim(s) if this defense is raised within this six-month period following the date of delivery.

VIII. Damages
(1) We shall only be obliged to pay damages where gross negligence is attributable to us. The degree of negligence is to be proven by the claimant.
(2) The Customer shall forego any compensation for damages in excess of the immediate damage; no damages shall be payable for loss of profit or consequential damage.
(3) The limitation period for the assertion of damages claims shall be 6 (six) months from the time of the passage of risk. Claims resting upon alleged damages claims shall only be admissible as a defense against any attempt by ourselves to secure judicial enforcement of any claim of ours if they are raised within this same period of time.
(4) In addition thereto the liability is limited to the amount of Euro 4.000.000,-- in general.
(5) These limitations of liability are not applicable for product liability or personal injury.

IX. Force majeure
Instances of force majeure, including war, strikes, lock-outs, boycotts, shutdowns or stoppages at our plant(s) or at any of our suppliers, actions of the authorities or other official measures, blockades, fire, ice, flooding or other unforeseen circumstances which are a major impediment to delivery or which make it impossible for us to deliver (regardless of whether such circumstances have affected ourselves or one of our suppliers) shall entitle us either to defer deliveries for the duration of the impediment and for a reasonable resumption period, or to cancel the contract altogether with regard to that part of the contract that has not yet been fulfilled. The Customer may request us to declare whether we intend to cancel the contract or to deliver within a reasonable period of time. If we do not declare our intentions, the Customer shall be entitled to cancel the contract.

X. Place of performance
(1) The agreed place of performance shall be the seat of the performing enterprise unless specified otherwise in individual contracts.
(2) The customer accepts as performing enterprise and company in which AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH has (directly or indirectly) a majority interest. This performing enterprise takes over any contractual obligations of the company that concluded the agreement with the Customer.

XI. Governing law, arbitral jurisdiction
(1) It is agreed that the legal relations between ourselves and the Customer shall be governed exclusively by substantive Austrian law, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and conflict-of-laws rules.
(2) Any disputes arising from this contract or bearing upon any breach, dissolution or invalidity of the contract, or which come about in connection with the contract, shall - at our option - exclusively either be definitively adjudicated by the competent court having jurisdiction in rem in St. Poelten, Austria, or by an arbitration tribunal of three arbitrators according to Rules of Arbitration and Conciliation of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna (Vienna Rules). The venue of the arbitral proceedings shall be Linz.

XII. Partial invalidity
If any clause of this contract should be, or become, invalid, or if the contract should be incomplete, the remainder of the contract shall not be affected thereby. The invalid provision shall either be replaced by the appropriate standard discretionary legal provision, or - in the absence of any such standard provision - it shall be supplemented by the commercial practice and upright trade usage obtaining at our principal place of business. Any loopholes in the contract are to be closed in like manner.

XIII. Privacy Austria Juice is processing personal data for business purposes and emphasizes the compliance with GDPR and applicable data protection laws. We expect this from our contractual partners as well. Please find our privacy notice linked in the footer. Upon request we provide a copy.

I. SCOPE OF APPLICATION 
(1) Austria Juice GmbH (hereinafter referred to as “AJ”) and the Seller agree that any and all – including any future – inquiries, purchase orders, purchases, agreements other transactions and services and contracts shall exclusively be governed by these General Terms and Conditions (GTCs). 
(2) AJ hereby objects to all differing terms and conditions of the Seller that may be included in confirmations of an order or other business papers or correspondence between the Parties. Any agreement on terms and conditions in variation of the GTCs shall be valid only if confirmed by AJ in writing and signed by representatives of AJ. 
(3) The GTCs shall not restrict any other legal claims AJ may have e.g. based on the applicable law. 

II. PRODUCT/SERVICES, PRICE, DURATION & DELIVERY TIME 
(1) The products to be delivered by the Seller or the services to be rendered, the price and the duration of the agreement as well as the date and time of delivery shall be as agreed by the Parties in a separate document, which is subject to amendment only by mutual agreement of the Parties.
(2) If delivery date(s) and/or time(s) cannot be met, the Seller shall inform AJ in writing of earliest possible delivery date(s) subject to AJ’s confirmation.  In addition to any other rights and remedies AJ may have under the contract or provided by law, if deliveries are not made in due time, AJ may
a) request that the Seller ships the deliveries by other than designated routing to expedite delivery (additional costs shall be borne by the Seller), 
b) terminate the contract in whole or in part and perform a cover purchase or
c) give the Seller an adequate grace period for delivery and accept such late delivery, however this does not result in a waiver of AJs remedy to terminate the contract in whole or in part if such grace period is not met by the Seller and
d) in any event claim from the Seller any losses, damages or additional costs and expenses arising in connection such expedited delivery or cancellation or late delivery (within the grace period set or even outside of such grace period).
(4) Even after lapse of the grace period set by AJ, AJ may accept the late delivery; however such acceptance of late delivery is not considered to constitute a waiver of any claims AJ may have under these GTCs, the contract or the applicable law.

III. INSPECTION
(1) AJ shall be exempt from any statutory obligation(s) to examine and test the products upon delivery or the services rendered in accordance with applicable law.
(2) The fact that an inspection may be carried out by AJ shall not be of any impact to the Seller´s liability or be any waiver of any rights or claims AJ may have due to any defect of the delivered product or rendered services. Acknowledgement of receipt on packing slips, bills of lading or other documents shall not constitute any acceptance or waiver of any claims, but are only the confirmation that a certain product has been received by AJ or certain services have been rendered. 
 
IV. WARRANTIES AND BREACH
(1) The Seller warrants to AJ that the products delivered and/or services rendered are free from any defects in workmanship and fit for the intended purpose and in full conformity with the specification and all applicable laws and regulations. 
(2) Seller further warrants to AJ that the delivered product, its production by the Seller, labeling, packaging and transport of the products delivered comply with the applicable laws and regulations in the  country of production, delivery or any other country designated by AJ or the country where the services are rendered or products are used by AJ and that Seller has obtained all necessary approvals and documents from all certification bodies.
(3) If the delivery is not in the form agreed upon by the parties (e.g. documents are missing or are incomplete) or if AJ discovers a defect, AJ is entitled to – without limiting any of AJ´s rights based on the applicable law: to 
a) request from the Seller a replacement delivery of any or all rejected products and/or 
b) request from the Seller the delivery of the missing or incomplete documents and/or
c) cancel the contract in whole or in part, and request from the Seller to refund the price of any and all rejected products; 
d) in any event claim any damages, losses and costs and expenses connected with such replacement and/or additional delivery and/or termination of the contract.
(4) All rejected products will be held for the Sellers prompt instruction and at the Sellers risk and expense or be disposed of at the Sellers expense after a written request of the Seller to collect such rejected products within an adequate period of time at its own cost. 
  
V. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES, AJ´s CODE OF CONDUCT & CONFIDENTIALITY, AUDITING
(1) The Seller warrants that all workers engaged in the manufacture or distribution of the deliveries will be treated in full compliance with the applicable laws and regulations of the country of manufacture, including but not limited to provisions regarding compensation, safety, non-discrimination and other conditions of employment.  Additionally, the Seller warrants that no person shall be employed at an age younger than fifteen (15) or younger than the age for completing compulsory education in the country of manufacture where such age is higher than fifteen (15). The Seller further warrants that no imprisoned laborer shall be engaged in the manufacture or distribution of the deliveries. The Seller further warrants to fully comply with the AJ Code of Conduct (available via the AJ´s website) and accepts any related audits organized by AJ to check the Seller’s compliance. 
(2) The Seller hereby accepts the applicability of AJ´s Code of Conduct (available under AJ´s website) as amended by AJ from time to time as an integral part of the contractual relationship.
(3) The Seller accepts that any and all information regarding to the contract itself, its existence and its performance, including but not limited to the duration, the product and the specifications, the services, the price shall be kept confidential and not be disclosed to any other third party, except the Seller is required by law or regulations to disclose any of such information. If the Seller is requested e.g. by a governmental body to disclose information of the contractual relationship the Seller will inform AJ prior to such disclosure in written form and allow AJ a minimum time of  fourteen (14) days to react in order to be able to obtain protective measures from the organization, body or person to whom such information is to be disclosed.
(4) Seller shall be obliged to assist AJ in any form of audit and e.g. respond to the Supplier Questionaire submitted to the Seller within adequate time. 

VI. ASSIGNMENT 
Seller may not assign any and all of its rights or obligations without AJ’s prior written consent which will not be unreasonably withheld.


VII. PAYMENT TERMS
(1) AJ will pay the outstanding invoices within the time determined in the individual contract to the Sellers bank account that is stated on the Sellers data sheet at AJ. Any change of such bank account needs to be notified to AJ by the representative(s) of the Seller in written form and is subject to AJs consent. 
(2) The Parties agree that any overdue invoices shall only bear interest of 4 % p.a. plus the base rate of the Austrian National bank for business to business transactions, maximum however 4 % p.a..
(3) AJ shall only be liable to pay to the Seller an amount of 0,5 % of the outstanding amount, minimum EUR 5,00 and maximum EUR 15,00 as compensation for recovery costs where interest for late payment becomes payable. Such recovery costs will only be paid to Seller, if Seller expressly claims such costs.

VIII. DUTIES AND CHARGES
(1) Customs Duties, taxes, levies, fees or other charges (hereinafter “Duties”) incurred in connection with the purchase contract are based on the legal and regulatory provisions applicable at the time of conclusion of the contract.
(2) If, after the conclusion of this contract, there are changes with regard to Duties that affect the delivery of the goods or the fulfillment of the contract, the seller shall bear all resulting additional costs; reduced costs shall also be reimbursed or taken into account in the settlement by the seller. This applies in particular to  
a) new introductions of Duties,  
b) increases and or reductions in existing Duties, and  
c) changes in the legal framework that lead to additional costs.
(3) The Seller undertakes to take all necessary measures to ensure that the delivery of the goods is made in accordance with the contractually agreed terms, in particular with regard to the remuneration, which includes Duties. AJ shall not be obliged to make any additional payments due to changes in customs duties or charges.
(4) The Seller is obliged to inform AJ immediately in writing of any changes in Duties and to explain how these changes will be handled. AJ reserves the right to request documented evidence of the changes.
(5) Should the Seller fail to meet its obligation to bear the additional costs arising from subsequent changes to Duties, Seller shall be liable for all resulting damages and costs.

IX. THIRD PARTY CLAIMS 
The Seller shall fully hold harmless and indemnify AJ for any and all claims of third parties, including but not limited to customers or consumers, caused by warranty breaches, defects in, or improper execution of, the Sellers deliveries, the Sellers suppliers and/and services or the Sellers subcontractors in rendering services to AJ. Such indemnification shall not require that the Seller is at fault.

X. INSURANCE 
(1) The Seller shall maintain insurance as may be necessary for the scope of its deliveries and services by the Seller at least in the form of a general liability insurance (including without limitation, professional indemnity, public and item liability insurance) in the amount of minimum five (5) million Euros. AJ shall be named as an additional insured in such insurance policy upon request of AJ.
(2) The Seller shall provide to AJ all documents necessary for verifying valid insurance cover and authorizes AJ to obtain information about the insurance policies from the insurance company of Seller.
(3) However, this or any other insurance does not limit the liability of the Seller in any way. 

XI. SEVERABILITY AND WRITTEN FORM 
(1) Should any term of these purchase order terms and conditions be invalid in whole or in part this shall not affect the validity of the remaining terms. In such a case, the Seller and AJ shall replace the invalid term by a valid term that closest reflects the economic purpose of the invalid term.
(2) Amendments or additions to this contract must be made in writing to be effective. This also applies to the waiver of the written form requirement itself. Verbal amendments or other agreements are not binding.
(3) When these GTC provide for the written form, this shall also be deemed to have been complied with by electronic means of communication, in particular e-mail or messenger services, provided that the content of the message is clearly comprehensible and permanently document.

XII. APPLICABLE LAW AND PLACE OF PERFORMANCE AND JURISDICTION  
(1) All contracts between Seller and AJ shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Austria. The United Nations Convention on International Sales of Products (CISG) and the conflict of law rules of international private law shall not be applicable.
(2) Place of performance of the Parties obligations is the registered address of AJ; the court having subject matter jurisdiction for the seat of AJ shall have exclusive jurisdiction in any matters of and connected with the contractual relationship. However, AJ shall also be entitled to bring suit at another place of jurisdiction, e.g. at the Seller´s registered office.  

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