Terms & Conditions
See below for our Standard Terms & Conditions for all EU Customers. Please click on the links below to see the T&C’s in relevant language:
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TERMS OF DELIVERY AND PAYMENT
- Quotation and prices are subject to change. In case of material or wage changes before the purchaser’s order is confirmed, MGA shall be entitled to add such changes to our quotation prices. Orders by MGA purchasers shall not be legally binding until confirmation by MGA.
- Delivery: Merchandise shall be delivered as follows: Principally freight collect, ex works, packing charged, unless a different condition has been agreed upon. Packing material is not taken back. All shipments are forwarded on purchaser’s risk. Therefore, complaints because of defective or incomplete delivery must be filed to the competent railway or mail administration or forwarding agent immediately after receipt of the merchandise. If a delivery delay of a confirmed order is caused by MGA, the Purchaser must allow for an additional delivery time of 4 weeks. The additional delivery time can only be set after expiry of the delivery term and shall be calculated starting from the day on which the written notification of the Purchaser establishing the additional delivery time is received by MGA. Before expiry of the additional delivery period any claims by the purchaser because of delayed delivery shall be excluded. Owing to our large product range and the production dispositions resulting therefrom, MGA shall be entitled to perform part deliveries which the Purchaser may not reject. In case of orders without any prescribed means of transportation, the decision is optional to MGA, but MGA shall not be liable in case higher costs should be involved. If MGA executes orders beyond its standard production, we shall not be obligated to examine as to whether any protective rights are violated thereby. The Purchaser undertakes to indemnify MGA from any liability resulting from such violations.
- Force majeure or official action as well as strikes and similar events which inhibit the confirmed terms of delivery and entitle MGA to repudiate the contract. MGA shall also be exempt from keeping the agreed term of delivery if material and supply problems with regard to raw materials, despatch delays, any other operation interruptions as caused by fire, strikes and lock-outs of any kind – general as well as special – in any plant occur. Performance of the contract and delivery in due time are subject to correct and timely supply to MGA. Neither is MGA responsible for any such events if they occur during a delivery delay. Delays in delivery arisen without MGA’s fault do not obligate MGA to pay damages. In the event of exhaustion of production supplies, damage to moulds and the like, MGA shall be entitled to cancel the articles concerned from delivery or to supply an equivalent alternative, as far as this is possible.
- Notice of defects in quality: The Purchaser shall examine the merchandise thoroughly after receipt. Complaints of any kind whatsoever shall be filed immediately and shall only be considered if they are received by MGA in writing at the latest within 8 days after the Purchaser has received the merchandise. Defects which do not appear until a later date or can be detected only later must be given notice of within 8 days from being detected. Rejected goods may only be returned with MGA’s consent and freight prepaid by purchaser. In case the Purchaser does not receive within 8 days a reply on a filed complaint involving threat of return shipment, the Purchaser shall be entitled to return the merchandise. However, the return of merchandise does not constitute acceptance by MGA that such merchandise is defective. Minor deviations in execution, colour of the articles, size and similar things do not entitle the Purchaser to file a notice of defect. In case the notice of defect is justified, MGA shall be entitled to deliver goods free from defects within 4 weeks after return of the defective goods. Until expiry of this term or rejection of subsequent delivery by MGA, the assertion of legal warranty claims (rescission from the contract, abatement or damages) shall be excluded. During this period the expiration of the limitation period of legal warranty claims is suspended; i.e. this period is not included in the limitation period.
- Reservation of title: The goods supplied by MGA shall remain MGA’s property until completion of settlement of all liabilities out of the business transaction including subsidiary claims (current account reservation). Purchase money claims collected shall be received for MGA by the Purchaser and must be remitted to MGA within the agreed payment term. Transfer of ownership by way of security and pledging of MGA’s goods delivered under reservation of title are inadmissible. In the event of pledging by third persons the Purchaser shall indicate that the goods concerned are MGA’s property and notify MGA immediately. The Purchaser is only entitled to sell in the normal course of business if a reservation of title has been agreed upon.
- Payment: The invoice shall not be made prior to the day of delivery or provision of the goods. Payment shall be made directly to MGA, unless otherwise agreed. The invoiced amounts become due within 8 days from the day of invoicing allowing 3 % of cash discount or 30 days without deduction. Payments shall always be set off against the old, overdue invoices and subsidiary claims, plus accrued default interests. When invoices are due, MGA shall be entitled to charge interest amounting to 8% above the base rate of The Bank of England. Until complete payment of invoiced amounts, default interests included, MGA IS not obligated to perform any further delivery based on any current running contract. In the event the Purchaser makes default with regard to payments due, or a substantial deterioration occurs in its financial circumstances, MGA may require cash payment, the date of required payment being cancelled, for all deliveries still outstanding, before shipment of the goods. Invoices already submitted shall become due immediately without discount. In this case MGA is also entitled to return any bills of exchange received in payment and to request cash payment.
- Mode of payment: Payment shall be done in cash, cheque, bank transfer, credit transfer or postal giro transfer. Any setoff against disputed counterclaims is inadmissible. Bills of exchange and cheques are not deemed to be cash payment. Bills of exchange are only received against reimbursement of bank, discount and collection expenses, which must be re-paid to MGA within 8 days after notification.
- Place of fulfilment and place of jurisdiction for deliveries and payments shall be England. This also applies to discounted bills of exchange as well as notices of defect, rescission from the contract claims for damages of any kind arising from the business relation.
General
Exclusion of any other agreements:
For the business transactions between purchasers and MGA,principally only MGA’s Terms of Delivery and Payment shall apply. Any other conditions than the above Conditions of Delivery and Payment, if they are noted on orders etc., are of no binding force. Any oral agreements need MGA’s written confirmation to be legally valid.
- Toepasselijkheid van de algemene voorwaarden De volledige juridische betrekkingen tussen MGA ENTERTAINMENT BELGIË SPRL (hierna 'MGA' genoemd) en de opdrachtgever worden beheerst door de volgende algemene voorwaarden, tenzij uitdrukkelijk anders is overeengekomen door MGA. Bij elke gemaakte bestelling wordt de klant geacht onvoorwaardelijk akkoord te gaan met de onderhavige algemene voorwaarden, waardoor de klant impliciet en onherroepelijk zijn recht om zijn eigen algemene voorwaarden toe te passen intrekt. Wanneer een of meer bepalingen van deze algemene voorwaarden ongeldig of nietig moeten worden verklaard, blijven alle overige bepalingen van deze algemene voorwaarden volledig van toepassing. In geval van een tegenstrijdigheid tussen deze algemene voorwaarden en een overeenkomst met een detailhandelaar of groothandelaar, zullen deze algemene voorwaarden voorrang krijgen.