CJEU Case C-632/17 / Order

Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności (PKO) Bank Polski S.A. w Warszawie v Jacek Michalski.
Policy area
Consumers
Deciding body type
Court of Justice of the European Union
Deciding body
Court (Seventh Chamber)
Type
Decision
Decision date
28/11/2018
ECLI (European case law identifier)
ECLI:EU:C:2018:963
  • CJEU Case C-632/17 / Order

    Key facts of the case:

    Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy w Siemianowicach Śląskich.

    Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Consumer protection — Directive 93/13/EEC — Unfair terms in consumer contracts — Directive 2008/48/EC — Order for payment procedure based on bank ledger excerpts — Impossible for the court, in the absence of an action brought by a consumer, to examine the unfairness of the contractual terms.

    Outcome of the case:

    On those grounds, the Court (Seventh Chamber) hereby rules:

    Article 7(1) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts and Article 10 of Directive 2008/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2008 on credit agreements for consumers and repealing Council Directive 87/102/EEC must be interpreted as precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which permits the issue of an order for payment, based on a bank ledger excerpt, as evidence of the existence of a debt arising from a consumer credit agreement, where the court dealing with an application for an order for payment does not have the power to examine whether the terms of that agreement are unfair and to ensure that, in that examination, the information referred to in Article 10 is made available, if the detailed rules for exercising the right to lodge an objection against such an order do not enable observance of the rights which the consumer derives from that directive to be ensured.

  • Paragraphs referring to EU Charter (original language)