CELEX: 62015CA0261
Language: en
Date: 2016-09-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-261/15: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 21 September 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vredegerecht te Ieper — Belgium) — Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen NV v Gregory Demey (Rail transport — Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 — Passengers’ rights and obligations — Absence of a ticket — Failure to regularise within the prescribed period — Criminal offence)

14.11.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 419/20
            
         Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 21 September 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Vredegerecht te Ieper — Belgium) — Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen NV v Gregory Demey
   (Case C-261/15) (1)
   
   ((Rail transport - Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 - Passengers’ rights and obligations - Absence of a ticket - Failure to regularise within the prescribed period - Criminal offence))
   (2016/C 419/25)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Vredegerecht te Ieper
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen NV
   
      Defendant: Gregory Demey
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The final sentence of Article 6(2) of Appendix A to the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980, as modified by the Protocol for the modification of the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail of 3 June 1999, in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations, must be interpreted as not precluding national provisions which lay down that a person making a train journey while not in possession of a ticket for that purpose, who fails to regularise his situation within the periods laid down in those provisions, does not have a contractual relationship with the railway undertaking.
   
      (1)  OJ C 270, 17.8.2015.