CELEX: 62018CA0407
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-407/18: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 26 June 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Višje sodišče v Mariboru — Slovenia) — Aleš Kuhar, Jožef Kuhar v Addiko Bank d.d. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Unfair terms in consumer contracts — Directive 93/13/EEC — Proceedings for the enforcement of a mortgage claim — Directly enforceable notarial instrument — Judicial review of unfair terms — Suspension of enforcement — Lack of jurisdiction of the court hearing the request for enforcement — Consumer protection — Principle of effectiveness — Proper interpretation)

19.8.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 280/8
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 26 June 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Višje sodišče v Mariboru — Slovenia) — Aleš Kuhar, Jožef Kuhar v Addiko Bank d.d.
      (Case C-407/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Unfair terms in consumer contracts - Directive 93/13/EEC - Proceedings for the enforcement of a mortgage claim - Directly enforceable notarial instrument - Judicial review of unfair terms - Suspension of enforcement - Lack of jurisdiction of the court hearing the request for enforcement - Consumer protection - Principle of effectiveness - Proper interpretation)
      (2019/C 280/09)
      Language of the case: Slovenian
      
         Referring court
      
      Višje sodišče v Mariboru
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Aleš Kuhar, Jožef Kuhar
      
         Defendants: Addiko Bank d.d.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts must be interpreted, in the light of the principle of effectiveness, as precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, under which the national court hearing an application for the enforcement of a mortgage loan agreement, concluded between a trader and a consumer in the form of a directly enforceable notarial deed, does not have the possibility, either at the request of the consumer or ex officio, of examining whether the terms contained in such a deed are unfair within the meaning of that Directive and, on that basis, of suspending the requested enforcement.
      
         (1)  OJ C 294, 20.8.2018.