CELEX: 62015CN0149
Language: en
Date: 2015-03-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-149/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Liège (Belgium) lodged on 30 March 2015 — Sabrina Wathelet v Garage Bietheres & Fils SPRL

29.6.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 213/16
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Liège (Belgium) lodged on 30 March 2015 — Sabrina Wathelet v Garage Bietheres & Fils SPRL
   (Case C-149/15)
   (2015/C 213/25)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Cour d’appel de Liège
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Sabrina Wathelet
   
      Defendant: Garage Bietheres & Fils SPRL
   
      Question referred
   
   Must the term ‘seller’ of consumer goods referred to in Article 1649bis of the Belgian Civil Code, as inserted by the Law of 1 September 1994 entitled ‘Law concerning consumer protection in matters involving the sale of consumer goods’, which transposes into Belgian law Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999‘on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees’ (1), be interpreted as covering not only a trader who, as seller, transfers ownership of consumer goods to a consumer, but also a trader who acts as intermediary for a non-trade seller, whether or not he is remunerated for his intervention and whether or not he has informed the prospective buyer that the seller is a private individual?
   
      (1)  Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees (OJ 1999 L 171, p. 12).