CELEX: 62011CA0206
Language: en
Date: 2013-01-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-206/11: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 January 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof — Austria) — Georg Köck v Schutzverband gegen unlauteren Wettbewerb (Consumer protection — Unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market — Legislation of a Member State providing for prior authorisation of announcements of sales)

2.3.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 63/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 January 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof — Austria) — Georg Köck v Schutzverband gegen unlauteren Wettbewerb
   (Case C-206/11) (1)
   
   (Consumer protection - Unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market - Legislation of a Member State providing for prior authorisation of announcements of sales)
   2013/C 63/03
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Oberster Gerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Georg Köck
   
      Defendant: Schutzverband gegen unlauteren Wettbewerb
   
      Re:
   
   Request for a preliminary ruling — Oberster Gerichtshof — Interpretation of 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), in particular Articles 3(1) and 5(5) — Legislation of a Member State prescribing prior authorisation for the announcement of a clearance sale
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   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’) must be interpreted as precluding a national court from ordering the cessation of a commercial practice not covered by Annex I to that directive on the sole ground that the practice has not been the subject of prior authorisation by the competent administrative authority, without itself carrying out an assessment of the unfairness of the practice in question against the criteria set out in Articles 5 to 9 of that directive.
   
      (1)  OJ C 226, 30.7.2011.