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- Gregor Grubhofer
Bank guarantees issued in connection with construction contracts sometimes contain ambiguous wording and do not state clearly enough the purpose for which they were issued (e.g. advance payment or performance bond). Under Austrian law, if the wording of the guarantee is not clear, the intention of the parties must also
- Gregor Grubhofer
In construction contracts, both an advance payment guarantee and a performance bond in the form of a bank guarantee are often agreed, which the contractor must provide. This distinction is particularly important if the employer makes unlawful use of the bank guarantee. A performance bond ensures that the work is
- Gregor Grubhofer
Under certain circumstances, a contracting party may be released from its obligation to perform if the performance of the service has become unaffordable and unreasonable in an unforeseeable manner. Generally, fixed-term contractual relationships may be terminated with immediate effect for good cause, such as impossibility of performance, before the expiry
- Gregor Grubhofer
In a much anticipated judgement in Slovak Republic v. Achmea B.V. (C-284/16), the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) ruled that the arbitration clause contained in the Netherlands-Slovakia BIT (the ‘BIT’) has an adverse effect on the autonomy of EU law. In the following, the CJEU extended the
- Gregor Grubhofer
Following a judgement of the European Court of Justice (C-209/12), the Austrian Supreme Court (“OGH”) decided in 2015 (7 Ob 107/15h) that an insured can cancel a life insurance contract at any time and for an indefinite period, if the insurer did not inform the insured about his statutory right
- Gregor Grubhofer
If the parties have not made an express choice of law, a contract for the sale of goods shall be governed by the law of the country where the seller has his habitual residence pursuant to Article 4 1. (a) of the EU Regulation No 593/2008 on the law applicable