CELEX: 62016CA0330
Language: en
Date: 2017-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-330/16: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 1 June 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie — Poland) — Piotr Zarski v Andrzej Stadnicki (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Combating late payments in commercial transactions — Directive 2011/7/EU — Commercial lease contracts of indefinite duration — Late rent payments — Contracts concluded before the period for transposing that directive had expired — National rules — Exclusion of such contracts from the temporal scope of that directive)

31.7.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 249/11
            
         Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 1 June 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie — Poland) — Piotr Zarski v Andrzej Stadnicki
   (Case C-330/16) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Combating late payments in commercial transactions - Directive 2011/7/EU - Commercial lease contracts of indefinite duration - Late rent payments - Contracts concluded before the period for transposing that directive had expired - National rules - Exclusion of such contracts from the temporal scope of that directive))
   (2017/C 249/15)
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Referring court
   
   Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Piotr Zarski
   
      Respondent: Andrzej Stadnicki
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 12(4) of Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions must be interpreted as meaning that the Member States may exclude from the scope of that directive late payments in the performance of a contract concluded before 16 March 2013, even where those late payments occur after that date.
   
      (1)  OJ C 335, 12.9.2016.