Key legal question
Whether the change from square-meter-based to consumption-based water/ARA cost allocation required the statutory form and was void without it.
Extracted holding
Yes. Switching from an allocation key based on floor area to one based on individual consumption was an unilateral contractual change to the tenants' detriment and therefore subject to the mandatory form requirement; without it, the change was void.
Extracted reasoning
The court treated the switch as a system change in the way ancillary charges were allocated. Even if public-law rules encouraged individual metering, they did not displace the tenancy-law form requirement. The landlord remained bound by the formal protection of Art. 269d OR.