CELEX: 62015CA0149
Language: en
Date: 2016-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-149/15: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Liège — Belgium) — Sabrina Wathelet v Garage Bietheres & Fils SPRL (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 1999/44/EC — Sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees — Scope — Concept of ‘seller’ — Intermediary — Exceptional circumstances)

9.1.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 November 2016 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Liège — Belgium) — Sabrina Wathelet v Garage Bietheres & Fils SPRL
   (Case C-149/15) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 1999/44/EC - Sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees - Scope - Concept of ‘seller’ - Intermediary - Exceptional circumstances))
   (2017/C 006/15)
   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
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The concept of ‘seller’, for the purposes of Article 1(2)(c) of 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, must be interpreted as covering also a trader acting as intermediary on behalf of a private individual who has not duly informed the consumer of the fact that the owner of the goods sold is a private individual, which it is for the referring court to determine, taking into account all the circumstances of the case. The above interpretation does not depend on whether the intermediary is remunerated for acting as intermediary
   
      (1)  OJ C 213, 29.6.2015.