CONTRACTING PROCESS. 1.1.All Buyer's contractual relationships shall be governed by the present General Terms and Conditions of Purchase, unless the application of the present terms and conditions or a part thereof is precluded, or unless the terms and conditions are modified and/or added to by Special Terms and Conditions of Purchase, which would be indicated in the respective contract, Buyer's offer or Buyer's order confirmation (unless specified otherwise below, or unless implied otherwise by the provisions concerned, the notion of "contract" as used throughout the present General Terms and Conditions of Purchase encompasses both contracts in paper form pursuant to Art. 1.2 of the present General Terms and Conditions of Purchase, and contracts entered into following the acceptance of an offer by the other contracting party pursuant to Art. 1.3 of the present General Terms and Conditions of Purchase. 1.2.The Buyer reserves the right to enter into a contract for a value exceeding CZK 10,000 in paper form. Such a contract must be signed on behalf of the Buyer and the Supplier by a statutory body or a person explicitly authorised to sign the contract. Unless the Supplier expressly refuses the paper form of the contract during negotiations on its content, the Buyer shall assume the Supplier consents to the paper form of the contract. Before the final draft of the contract is fully approved by both contracting parties, the Supplier may not reasonably assume the contract concerned to have been concluded and the Buyer shall have the right to discontinue the contractual negotiations. This provision does not apply to the performance of any framework contracts concluded between the Buyer and the Supplier. 0.0.Xx long as the value of a contract does not exceed CZK 10,000, the contract may be entered into on the basis of an offer of either contracting party confirmed by the other contracting party without any further formalities. An offer must contain, as a minimum requirement, the essentials of the contract to be concluded, and it must indicate by whom it is submitted and for whom it is intended. As regards offers and offer confirmations, the only persons authorised to act on behalf of the Buyer are their employees in manager, head of department, and purchasing department staff positions. In the event an offer is submitted or confirmed by an employee not included in the list in the previous sentence or by any other person, this shall be regarded as a breach of the representation mandat...
