CELEX: 62019CA0495
Language: en
Date: 2020-06-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-495/19: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 June 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Poznaniu — Poland) — Kancelaria Medius SA z siedzibą w Krakowie v RN (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Consumer protection — Directive 93/13/EEC — Article 7(1) — Consumer credit — Review of whether the contractual terms are unfair — Failure of the consumer to appear at the hearing — Scope of the court’s powers and obligations)

10.8.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 262/9
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 June 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Poznaniu — Poland) — Kancelaria Medius SA z siedzibą w Krakowie v RN
      (Case C-495/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Consumer protection - Directive 93/13/EEC - Article 7(1) - Consumer credit - Review of whether the contractual terms are unfair - Failure of the consumer to appear at the hearing - Scope of the court’s powers and obligations)
      (2020/C 262/13)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Referring court
      
      Sąd Okręgowy w Poznaniu (Regional Court, Poznań, Poland)
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Kancelaria Medius SA z siedzibą w Krakowie
      
         Defendant: RN
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 7(1) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts must be interpreted as precluding the interpretation of a national provision whereby a court hearing an action brought against a consumer by a seller or supplier, which falls within the scope of Directive 93/13, and giving judgment in default, where that consumer has failed to appear at the hearing to which he was invited, is prevented from adopting the measures of inquiry needed in order to examine of its own motion whether the contractual terms on which the seller or supplier based its action are unfair, when that court has doubts as to whether those terms are unfair, within the meaning of that directive.
      
         (1)  OJ C 337, 7.10.2019.