62022CJ0677_SUM
Case C‑677/22
Przedsiębiorstwo Produkcyjno – Handlowo – Usługowe A.
v
P. S.A.
(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy Katowice – Wschód w Katowicach)
Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 6 February 2025
(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Combating late payment in commercial transactions – Directive 2011/7/EU – Commercial transactions between undertakings – Article 3(5) – Obligation on Member States to ensure that the period for payment set in the contract concluded between undertakings does not exceed 60 calendar days – Possibility, for contracting parties, to set a longer period for payment – Condition for the express agreement in the contract of such a period – Condition that a contractual term is not grossly unfair to the creditor – Cumulative conditions – Contracts in which the terms are determined unilaterally by one of the parties – Contractual term by which the debtor unilaterally sets the period for payment of 120 days – Unlawfulness)
Approximation of laws – Combating late payment in commercial transactions – Directive 2011/7 – Transactions between undertakings – Obligation on Member States to ensure that payment periods not exceeding 60 calendar days are set in contracts – Exception where express provision is made in the contract – Scope – Contractual term determined unilaterally by the debtor – No evidence of the expression of a concurrence of wills on the part of the parties to be bound specifically by that term – Not included
(European Parliament and Council Directive 2011/7, recitals 12, 13 and 28 and Arts 1(1), 3(5) and 7(1))
(see paragraphs 31-42, 45, operative part)
See the text of the decision.