ANNOTATED TEXT OF CISG
Article 65

(2) If the seller makes the specification himself, he must inform the buyer of the details thereof and must fix a reasonable time within which the buyer may make a different specification. If, after receipt of such a communication, the buyer fails to do so within the time so fixed, the specification made by the seller is binding.

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• UNCITRAL outline of issues present
  
• Editorial analysis of this article with cross-references to related subjects, Ralph Amissah [Norway/Ghana]
  
• Secretariat Commentary (closest counterpart to an Official Commentary on this article)
• Match-up of this article with the 1978 draft
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• Use of the Principles of European Contract Law to help interpret CISG article 65
  • Match-ups with Continental and Common Law domestic rules, doctrine and jurisprudence

• 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 65 at the 1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference
• Summary of UNCITRAL legislative history
• Hague Convention antecedent
  • Article 65 match-up with ULIS
  • ULIS (full-text) and André Tunc Commentary on ULIS

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• Comments on Article 65 from 1999 text by John O. Honnold [U.S.] [available in CD-ROM edition only]

• Comments on Article 65 from seminal 1986 text by Peter Schlechtriem [Germany]
• Comments on Article 65 from monograph by Jacob S. Ziegel [Canada]
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• 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; go to Annotated Text of Article 60

Words, phrases and concepts

• State of knowledge ("may be known to") [65(1)]: link to variations on this theme recited elsewhere in the CISG

• notices governed by receipt rule (seller's notice supplying missing specifications [65(2)])): for commentary on this and other notices, go to Peter Schlechtriem [Germany], Effectiveness and Binding Nature of Declarations (Notices, Requests or Other Communications) under Part II and Part III of the CISG, Cornell Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Kluwer 1995) 95-114

• reasonableness [65(2)]: 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