Common use of Miscellaneous Clause in Contracts

Miscellaneous. 18.1 If one of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions and the further contracts reached should be or become ineffective, this shall not affect the validity of the remainder of the Terms and Conditions. The contracting parties are obliged to replace the ineffective provision by a ruling approximating most closely the economic success intended by the ineffective provision. 18.2 All disputes arising out of or in connection with any contract concluded between the parties or its validity and governed by these Terms and Conditions shall be finally settled in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) without recourse to the ordinary courts of law. The place of arbitration is Hannover. The number of arbitrators is one. The language of the arbitral proceedings shall be English. 18.3 All legal relationships between us and the Customer shall be exclusively governed by German law excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and any conflict of law rules.