CELEX: 62011CN0410
Language: en
Date: 2011-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-410/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona (Spain) lodged on 1 August 2011 — Pedro Espada Sánchez and Others v Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España S.A.

1.10.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 290/7
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona (Spain) lodged on 1 August 2011 — Pedro Espada Sánchez and Others v Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España S.A.
   (Case C-410/11)
   2011/C 290/11
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Pedro Espada Sánchez and Others
   
      Defendant: Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España S.A.
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Must the limit of 1 000 Special Drawing Rights per passenger, laid down in Article 22 of the Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, concerning the liability of the carrier in the case of destruction, loss or damage of baggage, considered in conjunction with Article 3(3) of that convention, be interpreted as a maximum limit for each individual passenger where a number of passengers travelling check in their shared baggage together, regardless of whether there are fewer pieces of checked baggage than there are actual travellers?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Or, on the contrary, must the limit to damages laid down in Article 22 of the Montreal Convention be interpreted as meaning that, for each piece of checked baggage, only one passenger may be entitled to claim compensation and that, accordingly, the maximum limit applied must be that fixed for a single passenger even if it is proved that the lost baggage identified by a single tag belongs to more than one passenger?