CELEX: 62010CN0288
Language: en
Date: 2010-06-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-288/10: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van Koophandel te Dendermonde (Belgium) lodged on 2 June 2010 — Wamo BVBA v JBC NV and Modemakers Fashion NV

11.9.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 246/20
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank van Koophandel te Dendermonde (Belgium) lodged on 2 June 2010 — Wamo BVBA v JBC NV and Modemakers Fashion NV
   (Case C-288/10)
   ()
   2010/C 246/34
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Rechtbank van Koophandel te Dendermonde
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   Applicant: Wamo BVBA
   Defendants: 
   
                
            
            
               JBC NV
            
         
                
            
            
               Modemakers Fashion NV
            
         
      Question referred
   
   Does Directive 2005/29/EC (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices preclude a national provision such as that laid down in Article 53 of the Wet van 14 juli 1991 betreffende de handelspraktijken en de voorlichting en bescherming van de consument (Law of 14 July 1991 on commercial practices and consumer information and protection, ‘WHP’) which prohibits announcements of price decreases and suggestions of such decreases during defined periods?
   
      (1)  Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’) (OJ 2005 L 149, p. 22).