GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SALE - UMS SAS
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The General Conditions of Sale
of
UNITED MONOLITHIC SEMICONDUCTORS SAS
Drafted in September 2016
GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SALE - UMS SAS
[ENGLISH VERSION]
CONDITIONS GENERALES DE VENTE - UMS SAS
[VERSION ANGLAISE]
General Conditions of Sale - UMS SAS Page | 2 on 4
Conditions Générales de Vente - UMS SAS
Version 2016 01
1. Applicability - Scope
1.1. These General Conditions of Sale (herein-
after referred to as “GCS”) shall apply to all
sales of product(s) and/or services (Prod-
uct(s)" and Service(s)as further defined
below) provided by United Monolithic
Semiconductors S.A.S. ("UMS") and shall
prevail over any other general terms and
conditions of sale or purchase.
Any amendment or supplement to these
GCS shall be expressly agreed upon in
writing between UMS and the buyer
(Buyer") in their orders (as defined be-
low). By sending an order to UMS, Buyer is
deemed to have accepted the entirety of
these GCS. Unless otherwise stated, in-
formation contained in the commercial
documents issued by UMS that may be
modified without prior notice by UMS in or-
der to take into account technical devel-
opments and/or economic conditions.
1.2. UMS offers a wide range of Products and
Services which might be customized upon
Buyer’s technical needs:
- Standard Product(s) such as wafers and
dies described in the UMS catalog, includ-
ing specific sorting of products based on
Buyer’s Statement of Works (“SOW”);
- Non-Standard Product(s) wholly or partly
developed by UMS on the basis of Buyer’s
technical specifications (“Specifications”)
which describe all specific characteristics,
functional and/or technical requirements of
the Product;
- Foundry Product(s) as further defined in
article 14 below;
- Services delivered by UMS are standard
or specific Services such as foundry ser-
vices that imply special work including de-
sign development, customized packaging
etc.
2. Enforcement of orders
2.1. Acceptance of Orders by UMS
UMS is only bound by the terms expressly
written in its quotation/offer or in UMS ac-
knowledgement of order. UMS quota-
tion/offer shall be binding for the period of
time as indicated in the quotation/offer. If
there is no such period of time, UMS, at its
sole option, will be entitled to withdraw its
quotation/offer at any time by written notice
thereof addressed to Buyer. UMS and
Buyer shall be bound by an enforceable
agreement (hereinafter referred to as “Or-
der”) only after written acceptance of
Buyer's order by UMS in the form of an ac-
knowledgement of order whatever forms it
may take.
2.2 Rescheduling Suspension - Cancella-
tion of Firm Orders
Principle. In case Buyer decides to cancel
an Order or part of an Order for any rea-
son, UMS may recover all costs and ex-
penses incurred by UMS with respect to
such termination including but not limited
to direct material and production costs,
remaining stocks, financial consequences
due to subcontractor cancellation (herein-
after referred to as “Costs”) up to the Order
price. Any partial payment(s) already remit-
ted are to be set off against such Costs
once defined and notified to Buyer. All
such Costs shall be reimbursed by Buyer
upon thirty (30) days as from the date of
UMS invoicing.
If orders are not duly issued and/or re-
ceived by UMS despite the start of Ser-
vices upon customer’s request, and unless
otherwise agreed by the Parties, such Ser-
vices shall be deemed to create a binding
Order subject to the latest UMS quotation.
Suspension. Except for Excusable Delay,
in case Buyer decides to suspend work or
part of the work related to Specific and/or
Standard Services for a period exceeding
sixty (60) days, then, at the end of this
suspension period, Buyer will either cancel
the Order, in whole or in part, or restart
work upon the receipt of Buyer’s new order
or written instruction. Whenever an Order
for Services is cancelled, UMS would re-
sume work in accordance with the related
Order as soon as practicable. UMS may
recover all Costs incurred as a result of the
suspension and/or cancellation as de-
scribed hereof.
3. Prices
Unless otherwise agreed, prices are ex-
pressed in Euros and do not include trans-
portation, specific packaging, insurance or
any taxes. Buyer is solely liable for carry-
ing out all necessary customs formalities
and for paying all associated costs, taxes
and/or duties in connection with the Prod-
ucts.
4. Delivery - Transportation
4.1. Unless otherwise agreed by reference to
INCOTERMS, delivery shall be deemed to
be made EX-Works Villebon s/ Yvette
(France) INCOTERMS, ICC 2010, publica-
tion n°715 - excluding all taxes, excise,
customs fees. Freight forwarder shall be
appointed by Buyer, or in the absence of
such appointment, by UMS on behalf and
in the name of Buyer.
Transportation of Products shall be at
Buyer's sole risks. Buyer shall therefore
check the delivered Products upon arrival
and, if necessary, notify any damage to the
carriers. On receipt of special instructions
from Buyer, shipments may be insured by
UMS; additional insurance costs shall be
correspondingly invoiced to Buyer.
4.2. The delivery time given by UMS shall take
effect as from the date of the acknowl-
edgement of order as defined in paragraph
2.1. If the performance of Order is subject
to prior suspensive condition(s) (advance
or down-payment, supply or any kind of
approval by Buyer, granting of ex-
port/import licence, letter of credit etc...),
the delivery time shall start as from the
date on which these conditions are fulfilled.
4.3. The delivery time quoted or acknowledged
by UMS are estimates only. Failure to de-
liver within the indicated schedule shall not
entail compensation for Buyer including
penalties and/or cancellation of Order.
5. Excusable delay
For the purpose of these GCS, "Excusable
Delay" shall mean any event, foreseeable
or not, for which effects could not be rea-
sonably prevented by UMS and are of
such a nature that it prevents UMS from
carrying out its obligations. Excusable De-
lay shall include any delay arising out of or
in connection with any event of Force Ma-
jeure or other cause beyond the reason-
able control of UMS, such as, but not lim-
ited to, Act of God, fire, flood, stoppage or
delay of transportation, failure of suppliers
or subcontractors strikes of any nature,
machine breaking, major accident in
UMS's plant, insurrection, riot or civil com-
motion, war, whether declared or not,
modification of or new legislation, order or
regulation, any act of or failure to act of
any governmental authority, cancellation or
non-renewal of any licence or authorization
by any Governmental authorities.
Buyer shall not be entitled to claim any
compensation from UMS as a result of
such Excusable Delays and UMS shall be
entitled to suspend and/or terminate any
Order or part of an Order affected by Ex-
cusable Delay at any time with no further
liability.
6. Acceptance Conformity of
products
6.1. Acceptance of Standard Products / Ser-
vices
The characteristics of Standard Prod-
ucts/Services shall be as listed in the UMS
catalog (updated from time to time) or as
defined in the UMS' latest published speci-
fications. Standard Services shall not be
subject to any specific acceptance proce-
dure. Upon completion of the relevant Ser-
vices, UMS and Buyer will sign a certificate
of completion.
6.2. Acceptance of Non-Standard Products
and Specific Services
Non-Standard Products are specially de-
signed by UMS upon Buyer’s Specifica-
tions and/or SOW. These documents shall
be reviewed and approved in writing by
UMS through a compliance matrix (hereaf-
ter “Compliance Matrix”) or otherwise, as
the Parties may agree upon in writing.
Buyer shall be liable for errors, omissions
and lack of correctness or/and accuracy of
all transmitted data. The Compliance Ma-
trix will state in how far UMS can be par-
tially, totally or not compliant with the Buy-
er’s Specifications/SOW including infor-
mation on deviation and documents format
to be taken into account in the course of
design and support phases for Non-
Standard and/or Specific Services.
6.3. Acceptance tests
In case Buyer requires a Certificate of
Conformity from UMS, this certificate (if
necessary) shall be issued in accordance
with the model currently used by the Qual-
ity-Assurance Department of UMS.
All Products are submitted to trials and
tests in UMS’ plants only. If Buyer requests
the Products to be tested in its presence,
the corresponding costs shall be borne by
Buyer.
Non-Standard Products having undergone
acceptance in UMS' factory or having sat-
isfied the rules of the relevant Quality As-
surance Procedure (the French C.C.Q.
system or the European C.E.C.C. system
as the case may be) and which, as a con-
sequence, are deemed to comply to rele-
vant Specifications.
7. Conditions of payment
Upon deliveries and unless otherwise
agreed upon by Parties, payment shall be
made to UMS within thirty (30) days from