(1) The person entitled to raise a claim may consider the goods lost if delivery has not taken place within the delivery period or within a further period equal in length to the delivery period but no shorter than either twenty days or, in cases involving cross-border carriage, thirty days.
(2) If the person entitled to raise a claim receives compensation for the loss of the goods, that person may, upon receiving the compensation, demand to be informed without delay if the goods should be found.
(3) Within one month of having been notified that the goods have been found, the person entitled to raise a claim may demand that they be delivered to that person, concurrently with their repaying the compensation, where appropriate less the costs that had been part of it. Any obligation to pay the freight and any claims to compensation of damages remains unaffected.
(4) If the goods have been found after the compensation has been paid, and if the person entitled to raise a claim has not asked to be informed, or if, having been informed, the person does not demand delivery, then the carrier will have the right of free disposal in relation to the goods.