CELEX: 62012CA0059
Language: en
Date: 2013-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-59/12: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 3 October 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof — Germany) — BKK Mobil Oil Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts v Zentrale zur Bekämpfung unlauteren Wettbewerbs eV (Directive 2005/29/EC — Unfair commercial practices — Scope — Misleading information circulated by a health insurance fund which is part of the statutory social security system — Fund established as a public law body)

23.11.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 344/20
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 3 October 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof — Germany) — BKK Mobil Oil Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts v Zentrale zur Bekämpfung unlauteren Wettbewerbs eV
   (Case C-59/12) (1)
   
   (Directive 2005/29/EC - Unfair commercial practices - Scope - Misleading information circulated by a health insurance fund which is part of the statutory social security system - Fund established as a public law body)
   2013/C 344/34
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundesgerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: BKK Mobil Oil Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts
   
      Defendant: Zentrale zur Bekämpfung unlauteren Wettbewerbs eV
   
      Re:
   
   Request for a preliminary ruling — Bundesgerichtshof — Interpretation of Article 3(1) 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 (the ‘Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’) (OJ 2005 L 149, p. 22) in conjunction with Article 2(d) of the same directive — Scope — ‘Commercial practices’ and ‘trader’ — Advertisements of a statutory health insurance fund containing misleading information in relation to the drawbacks flowing from a potential change of health insurance fund for its clients.
   
      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 (the ‘Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’), must be interpreted to the effect that a public law body charged with a task of public interest, such as the management of a statutory health insurance fund, falls within the persons covered by the directive.
   
      (1)  OJ C 138, 12.5.2012.