Programmheft 1/13 - Volkshochschule Bonn

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General Terms and Conditions
Section 4 · Participation certificate
and evaluation
(1) If desired by the contractual partner,
participation certificates shall be issued
subject to the proviso that
• the fee (Section 5) has been paid in full,
• the participant has attended at least
80% of the full course or event duration,
and
• the course or event or the last of several
course or event parts was held not
more than ten years previously.
(2) VHS shall be entitled to conduct surveys
among the participants in order to
assure the quality of its events and courses.
The survey shall be conducted on a
voluntary basis and anonymously.
Section 5 · Fee
(1) The fee for a course or event (fee) shall
be stated in the VHS announcement (programme,
public notice, etc.) valid at the
time of receiving the application and shall
be due on commencement of the course
or event concerned.
(2) A discount of 30% on the fee shall
be granted to severely disabled persons
within the meaning of Section 1 of the
German Disabilities Act (SchwG) (with
a degree of disability of at least 50%),
schoolchildren, students, au-pairs, trainees,
people completing a voluntary social
year and people performing federal
voluntary service. Holders of the entitlement
card issued by the City of Bonn (socalled
Bonn Card) shall be granted a 50%
discount on the fee.
(3) Entitlement to a discount shall be
proved through submission of a printed
or electronic copy of the relevant documents
(permits, certification of service,
etc.) on filing the application (Section 2),
but at the latest seven days before the fee
is due (Section 5, paragraph (1) above).
Documents received by VHS after this
time-limit shall be disregarded.
(4) Discounts shall in all cases be excluded
for the following: examination fees,
preventive courses, learning aids included
in the fee, study trips and excursions, as
well as specifically designated events.
Section 6 · Organizational changes
(1) Participants shall not be entitled to demand
that a course or event be held by
a specific course leader. This shall also
apply even when the course leader has
been named when announcing the course
or event.
(2) VHS may change the time and venue
of a course or event for technical reasons.
(3) If part of a course or event has to be
cancelled for reasons for which VHS is
not responsible (e.g. due to illness of the
course leader), this part may be held at
a later date. However, participants shall
not be entitled to demand that it be held.
Section 7, paragraph 2, second sentence,
shall apply accordingly if the cancelled
part of a course or event does not take
place.
(4) Courses and events shall not take
place as a matter of principle on all public
holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Section 7 · Rescission and termination
by VHS
(1) Unless specified otherwise in the announcement
for a course or event, the
minimum number of participants shall be
ten (10). VHS may rescind the contract if
the minimum number is not reached. The
contractual partner shall not incur any
costs as a result. VHS shall be entitled to
reach an agreement with its contractual
partner to hold courses or events with
smaller groups in return for a higher fee.
(2) In addition, VHS may rescind or terminate
the contract if a course or event
has to be cancelled partly or completely
for reasons for which VHS is not responsible
(e.g. due to illness of the course
leader). In such a case, the fee shall be
repaid to the contractual partner on a pro
rata basis in accordance with the number
of completed units in relation to the total
number of course units.
(3) If the fee due is not paid within ten
(10) days of the due date (Section 5, paragraph
(1)), VHS may set a period of grace
with simultaneous notice of rescission if
it expires fruitlessly and may then rescind
the contract. In such a case, the contractual
partner shall be obliged to pay 5% of
the fee for the course or event, notwithstanding
further sums claimed for processing
the application, but not more the EUR
20 in total. The contractual partner shall
be entitled to prove that the actual costs
are lower than the agreed lump-sum. The
contractual partner's statutory right of revocation
shall remain unaffected.
(4) VHS may terminate the contract in accordance
with the provisions of Section
314 of the German Civil Code (BGB). Good
cause shall apply in the following cases in
particular:
• Anti-social behaviour in courses or
events despite admonishment and threat
of termination by the course leader,
in particular by disrupting the flow
of information or obstructing the course
or event through noise or troublemaking.
• Issuing insults of any kind against the
course leader, other participants or employees
of VHS.
• Discriminating people on account of
personal characteristics (age, sex, race,
nationality or religion, etc.).
• Abusing the course or event for political
or ideological purposes or for agitation
of any kind.
(5) In lieu of termination, VHS may also
exclude the participant from a course
unit. VHS' entitlement to the fee shall not
be affected by any such termination or exclusion.
Section 8 · Termination and
revocation by the
contractual partner
(1) Unless specified otherwise in the programme
announcement, the contractual
partner shall be entitled to terminate the
contract in writing up to 14 days before
commencement of the event in the case
of educational trips and up to seven (7)
days before commencement of other
courses or events. A cancellation fee of
EUR 6.10 shall be payable. The full fee
shall be payable if notice of termination is
received by the VHS administration after
the applicable deadline.
Transfers within a semester shall basically
be possible once only in the case of
courses with more than 10 course units
without affecting costs, provided that free
places are available.
(2) Applications for single events with a
fee of less than EUR 6.10 may be terminated
free of charge up to seven (7) days
before the event, unless a different timelimit
has been specified when announcing
the event. The full fee shall be payable if
notice of termination is received after this
deadline.
(3) Informing the course leader accordingly
or failing to attend the course shall not
constitute termination of the contract.
(4) If the event or course displays a defect
capable of permanently impairing the purpose
of the course or event, the contrac-