CELEX: 62013CN0342
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-342/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Szombathelyi Törvényszék (Hungary) lodged on 24 June 2013 — Katalin Sebestyén v Kővári Zsolt Csaba and Others

16.11.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 336/5
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Szombathelyi Törvényszék (Hungary) lodged on 24 June 2013 — Katalin Sebestyén v Kővári Zsolt Csaba and Others
   (Case C-342/13)
   2013/C 336/13
   Language of the case: Hungarian
   
      Referring court
   
   Szombathelyi Törvényszék
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Katalin Sebestyén
   
      Defendants: Kővári Zsolt, Csaba OTP Bank, OTP Faktoring Követeléskezelő Zrt., Raiffeisen Bank Zrt.
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               On the basis of Article 3(1) [of Council Directive 93/13/EEC (1) of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts], is a contractual clause to be regarded as unfair that makes disputes regarding a loan contract concluded by a consumer and a bank subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of a Chamber made up of three arbitrators of the Pénz- és Tőkepiaci Állandó Választottbíróság (Permanent Arbitration Court of the Financial and Capital Market)?
            
         
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               On the basis of Article 3(1) [of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts], is a contractual clause to be regarded as unfair that makes disputes concerning a loan contract entered into by a consumer and a bank subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of a Chamber made up of three arbitrators of the Permanent Arbitration Court of the Financial and Capital Market, save in the exceptional cases provided for in the contract, regardless of the fact that the contract contains general information concerning differences between the procedure governed by Law LXXI of 1994 on Arbitration and ordinary legal proceedings?
            
         
      (1)  Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29).