Description : Unless otherwise specifically agreed in writing, GEO-CHEM or any of its affiliated companies or any of its agents (each hereinafter called the "Company") undertakes services in accordance with these general conditions (hereinafter called "General Conditions") and accordingly all offers or tenders of service are made subject to the same
All resulting contracts, agreements or other arrangements will in all respects to be governed by these General Conditions, expect only to the extent that the law of the place where such arrangements or contracts are made or carried out shall preclude any of the conditions, and in such case the said local law shall prevail wherever, but only to the extent that, it is at variance with these General Conditions.
2 The company is a business enterprise engaged in the trade of inspection and testing . As such, it:
- carries out inspections, verifications, examinations, tests, sampling, measurements and similar operations;
- issue reports and certificates relating to the aforesaid operations;
- renders advisory services in connection with such matters.
3 The company acts for the persons or bodies from whom the instructions to act have originated (hereinafter called the "Client"). No other party is entitled to give instructions, particularly on the scope of inspection / testing or delivery of report or certificate, unless so authorised by the client.
The Company will however be deemed irrevocable authorized by the Client to deliver at its discretion of report or certificate to a third party where so instructed by the Client, if a promise in this sense had been given to this third party or such a promise implicity follows from circumstances, trade custom, usage or practice.

4 The company will provide services in accordance with:

- the Client's specific instructions as confirmed by the company
- the terms of the Company's standard order form and / or standard specification sheet, if used.
- any relevant trade custom, usage or practice;
- methods as the Company shall consider suitable on technical, operational and / or financial grounds.
5 Documents reflecting engagements contracted between the Client and third parties such as copies of contracts of sales, letters of credit , bills of lading, etc. are (if received by the Company) considered to be for information only, without extending or restricting the Company's mission, obligations and scope of services.

6. The Company's standard services are as follows:

- quantities and / or qualitative inspection;
- inspection of condition of goods, packing, containers and transportation;
- inspection of loading or discharging;
- sampling;
- laboratory analysis or other testing.
7 Special services where the same exceed the scope of standard services as referred to in paragraph 6, will only be undertaken by the company by particular arrangements. Such special services will illustratively not exhaustively:
- quanitites and/or qualitative inspection;
- grouped services including concurrent and consequent operations;
- supervision of full industrial project schemes, including consultanting, expediting and progress reporting.
8 Subject to the Client's instructions, as accepted by the Company, the Company will issue reports and certificates of inspection/testing which reflect statements of opinions made with due care within the limitation of instructions received, but the Company is under no obligation to refer to report upon any facts or circumstances which are outside the specific instructions received.
The Client will:
-ensure that instructions to the Company and sufficient information are given in due time to enable the required services to -be performed effectively.
-procure all necessary access for the Company's representatives to goods, premises installations and transport in order to -enable the required services to be performed effectively.
-supply, if required, any special instrument / equipment and personnel necessary for the performance of the required -services;
-ensure that all necessary measures are taken for safety and security of working conditions, sites and installations during the -performance of services and will not rely, in this respect, on the Company's advise whether required or not;
-take all necessary steps to eliminate or remedy any obstruction to, or interruptions in, the performance of the required -services;
-inform the company in advance of any known hazards or dangers, actual or potential, associated with any order or -samples or testing including, for example, presence or risk or radiation, toxic or noxious or explosive elements or -materials, enviornmental pollution or poisons;
-fully exercise all its rights and discharge all its liabilities under any relevant contract of sale or any other contract with a -third party, whether or not a report or certificate has been issued by the Company, failing which the Company shall be -under no obligation to the client.
10 The Company may delegate the performance of the whole or any part of the services contracted for with the Client to any agent or subcontractor.