CELEX: 62008CN0511
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-511/08: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 25 November 2008 — Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. v Handelsgesellschaft Heinrich Heine GmbH

7.2.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/19
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 25 November 2008 — Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. v Handelsgesellschaft Heinrich Heine GmbH
   (Case C-511/08)
   (2009/C 32/30)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Bundesgerichtshof
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V.
   
      Defendant: Handelsgesellschaft Heinrich Heine GmbH
   Question referred
   Are the provisions of Article 6(1), sentence 2, and Article 6(2) of Directive 97/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 1997 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts (1) to be interpreted as precluding national legislation which allows the costs of delivering the goods to be charged to the consumer even where he has withdrawn from the contract?
   
      (1)  OJ L 144, p. 19.