General sales and supply conditions.

GENERAL SALES CONDITIONS

1. Every order is accepted on the basis of the following terms & conditions, several of which may be deviated from in writing on our part.

2. All sales are final upon despatch from our warehouses, where the supply and transfer of risk takes place, including in the event that we insure or instruct to be insured the transport of the goods to the agreed destination. In the latter case the goods shall be transported at our customer’s own risk, who is responsible for the unloading of the vehicle and is obliged to immediately itemise all necessary reservation for the attention of the shipper in the event of visible loss and/or damage and within a term of 7 days for invisible loss and/or damage. Transport is contractually subject to the CMR convention (Belgian Act of 4 September 1962). Every order placed via the intervention of our agents or representatives is subject to the suspensive condition of our written acceptance. Our agents and representatives do not bind our company and are not authorised to collect payments on our behalf.

3. Any claim for concealed faults must be communicated to us in writing within 7 days of supply, upon despatch from our warehouses, and shall only be accepted provided the sold goods are kept in the same condition as when they were despatched from our warehouses. Our responsibility is restricted to the replacement of the material recognised to be defective subject to the same conditions and within the best timescales, with the exception of any compensation of whatever nature, or in the event of the impossibility of replacement to the cancellation of the corresponding invoice.

4. DELIVERY TERM. We receive and record incoming orders in order to implement them, insofar as is possible, within the requested or promised term. In the event that the expressly stipulated manufacturing periods are exceeded however, no responsibility or penalty whatsoever can be imposed upon us other than that which was agreed in writing during the placement and acceptance of the order. Any cancellation only takes effect by written confirmation on our part.

5. FORCE MAJEURE All cases of force majeure exempt the company from the obligation to supply. The following are considered to be and accepted by the customer to be cases of force majeure: Including, mobilisation in full or in part, war, epidemics, lock-out, strikes in our factories in full or in part, lack of transport means, accidents, fire, floods, explosions, drought and all cases giving rise to unemployment of part or all of our branches or those of our suppliers and which reduce or impede normal production.

6. DELAY. Cases of force majeure and coincidence permit us the option on the one hand to consider the contract to be broken without compensation or on the other hand to extend the contract by a period equivalent to the interruption of the work. Our decision will be communicated by registered letter.

7. PAYMENT. Our invoices are payable in cash to our registered office and in accordance with common law are subject to interest equal to statutory interest. Should there be any rights over the solvency of our customers, we reserve the right to demand security or payment in full prior to delivery. Failure to make payment by the expiry date will result in a penalty being applied in accordance with common law of 20% of the invoiced amount with a minimum of € 125 in order to cover commercial losses and administrative costs. The goods remain our property until the moment that they are paid for in full.

8. Any dispute falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Magistrates Courts in Brussels