ANNOTATED TEXT OF CISG
Article 60

(a) in doing all the acts which could reasonably be expected of him in order to enable the seller to make delivery; and

(b) in taking over the goods.

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• Secretariat Commentary (closest counterpart to an Official Commentary on this article)
• Match-up of this article with the 1978 draft
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• 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 60 at the 1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference
• Summary of UNCITRAL legislative history
• Hague Convention antecedents
  • Article 60 match-up with ULIS
  • ULIS (full-text) and André Tunc Commentary on ULIS

• • Martin Karollus [Austria], excerpt from Judicial Interpretation and Application of the CISG in Germany 1988-1994, Cornell Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1995) 51-94

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

  Comments on Article 60 from seminal 1986 text by Peter Schlechtriem [Germany]

• Comments on Article 60 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]

• Lief Sevón, excerpt from Obligations of the Buyer under the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods, Suomalainen Lakimiesten Yhdistys: - Tidskrift utgiven av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland 126 (1990) 327-343

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Links to related articles

• For provisions on seller's delivery obligations, go to Annotated Text of Article 30 [Summary of seller's obligations]; go to Annotated Text of Article 31 [Place for delivery]; go to Annotated Text of Article 32 [Shipping arrangements]; go to Annotated Text of Article 33 [Time for delivery]; go to Annotated Text of Article 34 [Documents relating to the goods]

• It is conceivable that buyer's obligation to provide specifications can be regarded as part of his "obligation to take delivery" as recited in Article 60. In this event, Article 65 may be relevant: go to Annotated Text of Article 65 [Seller's notice supplying missing specifications]

Words, phrases and concepts

• reasonableness [60(a)]: In addition to being 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