CELEX: 62017CN0590
Language: en
Date: 2017-10-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-590/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 12 October 2017 — Henri Pouvin, Marie Dijoux, wife of Henri Pouvin v Electricité de France (EDF)

18.12.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 437/20
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 12 October 2017 — Henri Pouvin, Marie Dijoux, wife of Henri Pouvin v Electricité de France (EDF)
   (Case C-590/17)
   (2017/C 437/24)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Referring court
   
   Cour de cassation
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Henri Pouvin, Marie Dijoux, wife of Henri Pouvin
   
      Defendant: Electricité de France (EDF)
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Is Article 2 of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (1) to be interpreted as meaning that a company such as EDF, where it grants an employee a mortgage loan covered by the scheme providing assistance for the purchase of a home, for which only members of the staff of that company are eligible, is acting as a seller or supplier?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Is Article 2 of Directive 93/13/EEC to be interpreted as meaning that a company such as EDF, where it grants such a mortgage loan to the spouse of an employee who is not a member of the staff of that company but is jointly and severally liable as co-borrower, is acting as a seller or supplier?
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Is Article 2 of Directive 93/13/EEC to be interpreted as meaning that an employee of a company such as EDF who enters into an agreement with the company for such a loan is acting as a consumer?
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Is Article 2 of Directive 93/13/EEC to be interpreted as meaning that the spouse of such an employee who enters into the same loan, not as an employee of the company but as a jointly and severally liable co-borrower, is acting as a consumer?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29.