Contract extended or price raised? What the letter means and how to cancel
A provider informs you about a price increase, new terms or an extension.
How to recognise the letter
- The sender is a company you have a contract with.
- It announces a price increase, new terms or an extension.
- Often there is a special right to cancel with a deadline.
Which deadline applies?
No statutory deadline.
If a contract with standard terms is tacitly extended after the minimum term, it can then be cancelled at any time with at most one month's notice (§ 309 Nr. 9 BGB, for contracts since 01.03.2022 under Art. 229 § 60 EGBGB). The deadline is in the contract.
What happens if you do nothing?
The contract continues at the new conditions.
Your options
- Use the special right to cancel
- Cancel at the next possible date and ask for confirmation
- Advice: Verbraucherzentrale
Who can help?
Verbraucherzentrale if a clause is doubtful
Frequently asked questions
Can I cancel at any time after the extension?
For contracts with standard terms concluded since 1 March 2022, as a rule yes: after a tacit extension, at any time with at most one month's notice (§ 309 Nr. 9 BGB, Art. 229 § 60 EGBGB).
Who can help me?
Verbraucherzentrale if a clause is doubtful.
General information, not legal advice. Whether this decision is correct and what is right in your case is for an advice centre or a lawyer to say. Laws link to the official German text at gesetze-im-internet.de.