CELEX: 62020CA0484
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-484/20: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 2 December 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht München — Germany) — Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände — Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Consumer protection — Directive (EU) 2015/2366 — Payment services — Article 62(4) — Charges applicable — Article 107(1) — Full harmonisation — Article 115(1) and (2) — Transposition and application — Subscriptions for cable television and internet access — Contracts of indefinite duration concluded before the date for transposition of that directive — Charges applied to payment transactions without direct debit authorisation that are initiated after that date)

31.1.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 51/12
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 2 December 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht München — Germany) — Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände — Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V.
      (Case C-484/20) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Consumer protection - Directive (EU) 2015/2366 - Payment services - Article 62(4) - Charges applicable - Article 107(1) - Full harmonisation - Article 115(1) and (2) - Transposition and application - Subscriptions for cable television and internet access - Contracts of indefinite duration concluded before the date for transposition of that directive - Charges applied to payment transactions without direct debit authorisation that are initiated after that date)
      (2022/C 51/15)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Oberlandesgericht München
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH
      
         Respondent: Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände — Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 62(4) of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2015 on payment services in the internal market, amending Directives 2002/65/EC, 2009/110/EC and 2013/36/EU and Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010, and repealing Directive 2007/64/EC, must be interpreted as precluding national legislation or a national practice under which, in the context of contracts of indefinite duration concluded with consumers, the prohibition on requesting charges for the use of payment instruments, and for payment services, referred to in Article 62(4) applies only to payment transactions initiated in performance of contracts concluded after 13 January 2018, with the result that such charges remain applicable to payment transactions initiated after that date in performance of contracts of indefinite duration concluded before that date.
      
         (1)  OJ C 433, 14.12.2020.