CELEX: C2006/048/07
Language: en
Date: 2006-02-25 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of  10 January 2006  in Case C-402/03: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Vestre Landsret in Skov Æg v Bilka Lavprisvarehus A/S and Bilka Lavprisvarehus A/S v Jette Mikkelsen, Michael Due Nielsen (Directive 85/374/EEC — Liability for defective products — Liability of the supplier of a defective product)

25.2.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 48/4
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Grand Chamber)
   of 10 January 2006
   in Case C-402/03: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Vestre Landsret in Skov Æg v Bilka Lavprisvarehus A/S and Bilka Lavprisvarehus A/S v Jette Mikkelsen, Michael Due Nielsen (1)
   
   (Directive 85/374/EEC - Liability for defective products - Liability of the supplier of a defective product)
   (2006/C 48/07)
   Language of the case: Danish
   In Case C-402/03: reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 234 EC from the Vestre Landsret (Denmark), made by decision of 26 September 2003, received at the Court on 29 September 2003, in the proceedings between Skov Æg and Bilka Lavprisvarehus A/S and between Bilka Lavprisvarehus A/S and Jette Mikkelsen, Michael Due Nielsen — the Court (Grand Chamber), composed of V. Skouris, President, P. Jann (Rapporteur), C.W.A. Timmermans, A. Rosas, K. Schiemann and J. Makarczyk, Presidents of Chambers, C. Gulmann, J.N. Cunha Rodrigues, R. Silva de Lapuerta, K. Lenaerts, P. Kūris, E. Juhász and G. Arestis, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; H. von Holstein, Deputy Registrar, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 10 January 2006, in which it ruled:
   Council Directive 85/374/EEC of 25 July 1985 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning liability for defective products must be interpreted as:
   
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               precluding a national rule under which the supplier is answerable, beyond the cases listed exhaustively in Article 3(3) of the directive, for the no-fault liability which the directive establishes and imposes on the producer;
            
         
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               not precluding a national rule under which the supplier is answerable without restriction for the producer's fault-based liability.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 304 of 13.12.2003.