ANNOTATED TEXT OF CISG
Article 30

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Guide to this article

• UNCITRAL outline of issues present
  
• Editoral analysis of this article with cross-references to related subjects [not yet available]
  
• Secretariat Commentary (closest counterpart to an Official Commentary on this article)
• Match-up of this article with the 1978 draft
(to validate Secretariat Commentary)

• Roadmap to the legislative history of this article
• Legislative history of this article: long form
• Legislative history of this article: short form
  • Chronology of development of Article 30 at the 1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference
• Summary of UNCITRAL legislative history
• Hague Convention antecedents
  • Article 30 match-up with ULIS
  • ULIS (full-text) and André Tunc Commentary on ULIS

• For further information on CISG case law (material not in this database), go to Unilex: click for a description of the contents of this service. Also of considerable utility are the compendium of case citations and the CISG bibliography contained in Michael R. Will, Twenty Years of International Sales Law Under the CISG: International Bibliography and Case Law Digest, Kluwer Law International (2000). Prof. Will's materials are presented on the CD-Rom edition of the database.

• Selected monographs and anthologies (English language)

• Comments on Article 30 from 1999 text by John O. Honnold [U.S.] [available in CD-ROM edition only]

• Comments on Article 30 from monograph by Jacob S. Ziegel [Canada]

• Citations to materials on this article in other texts (selected texts only)
• Selected law journal articles and other commentaries

• Hamid Reza Oloumi-Yazdi [Iran], Delivery in International Sale of Goods: An Analytical Study of Iranian Law and the Vienna Sales Convention (Thesis: Exeter May 1998) 429 p. [text on file at Pace Institute of International Commercial Law]

• To identify other relevant commentaries, go to Bibliography and Bibliography Search Form [deliver* (stem for delivery/deliveries) is a search form entry you may wish to consider; to compare the CISG's delivery terms with the trade terms most commonly adopted, you may also wish to enter incoterms in the bibliography search form]

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Links to related articles

• Article 30 introduces the CISG's chapter on Obligations of the seller. This chapter contains three sections: Section I. Delivery of the goods and handing over of documents: go to the Annotated texts of Articles 31 through 33 for the appropriate links; Section II. Conformity of the goods and third party claims: go to the Annotated Texts of Articles 35 through 44 for the appropriate links; Section III. Remedies for breach of contract by the seller: go to the Annotated Texts of Articles 45 through 52 for the appropriate links

Words, phrases and concepts

• reasonableness: Although not specifically mentioned in this article, reasonableness is a general principle of the CISG
  • For the definition of reasonableness recited in the Principles of European Contract Law and references to reasonableness in Continental and Common Law domestic rules, doctrine and jurisprudence, go to PECL article 1:302 and the comment and notes prepared for this provision

  • To drive home the correlation between the PECL's definition of reasonableness and the evident same meaning of this term to CISG legislators when they used the concept either specifically or as a general principle of the uniform law they drafted, see overview comments and comments that illustrate the similar manner in which this concept fits the CISG