ABOUT THE RECENT INTERPRETATION OF CJEU IN THE MATTER OF UNFAIR TERMS OF CONSUMER CREDIT CONTRACTS RELEVANT MEANINGS FOR THE NATIONAL CASE LAW
Gina Orga-Dumitriu ()
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Gina Orga-Dumitriu: Faculty of Law, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Perspectives of Law and Public Administration, 2014, vol. 3, issue 1, 12-25.
Abstract:
The original formula established by the EU legislator for the repression of unfair terms (by the use of the criteria for the establishment of the abusive character – the lack of negotiation of the clause, the significant unbalance between the rights and obligations of the parties and the infringement, by the professional, of the good faith requirement) was consolidated by the developments made at case law level through the exercise, by the Court in Luxembourg, of its interpretative function. The study starts with a diachronic view of the solutions that highlighted the manifest tendency of CJEU to provide the effective protection of consumers by the admission of the judicial control performed ex officio over the unfair terms in Océano Grupo, Mostaza Claro and Cofidis, such judgments being also reconfirmed on occasion of the ulterior interventions from Pannon GSM, Asturcom Telecomunicaciones and Pénzügyi Lízing or, with particular reference to the consumer credit contracts, in Banco Español de Crédito and, lately, in Aziz (I). Afterwards, following a general description of the casuistic background of the disputes between credit consumers and banks in Romania (II), the analysis of the juridical meanings of the interpretations related to the recent Kásler case law from the 30th of April 2014, respectively Sánchez Morcillo and Abril García case laws from the 17th of July 2014 may not be extended also by the realistic assessment of the effects thereof in our national law and of the (potential) implications that are relevant for the Romanian courts of law (III).
Keywords: reference for a preliminary ruling; unfair terms; protection of consumers; consumer contracts; consumer credit contracts; terms relating to the exchange rate. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K12 K33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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