CELEX: 62015CN0562
Language: en
Date: 2015-11-04 00:00:00
Title: Case C-562/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d'appel de Paris (France) lodged on 4 November 2015 — Carrefour Hypermarchés SAS v ITM Alimentaire International SASU

25.1.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 27/11
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d'appel de Paris (France) lodged on 4 November 2015 — Carrefour Hypermarchés SAS v ITM Alimentaire International SASU
   (Case C-562/15)
   (2016/C 027/14)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Cour d'appel de Paris
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Carrefour Hypermarchés SAS
   
      Respondent: ITM Alimentaire International SASU
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Whether Article 4(a) and (c) of Directive 2006/114/EC of 12 December 2006 (1) …, which provides that ‘[c]omparative advertising shall … be permitted when … it is not misleading [and] it objectively compares one or more material, relevant, verifiable and representative features of those goods and services’, must be interpreted as meaning that a comparison of the price of goods sold by retail outlets is permitted only if the goods are sold in shops having the same format or of the same size;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Whether the fact that the shops whose prices are compared are of different sizes and formats constitutes material information within the meaning of Directive 2005/29/EC (2) that must necessarily be brought to the knowledge of the consumer;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               If so, to what degree and/or via what medium must that information be disseminated to the consumer?
            
         
      (1)  Directive 2006/114/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 concerning misleading and comparative advertising (OJ 2006 L 376, p. 21).
   
      (2)  Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’) (OJ 2005 L 149, p. 22).