CELEX: 62011CA0134
Language: en
Date: 2012-02-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-134/11: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 February 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Hamburg (Germany)) — Jürgen Blödel-Pawlik v HanseMerkur Reiseversicherung AG (Directive 90/314/EEC — Package travel, package holidays and package tours — Article 7 — Protection against the risk of insolvency or bankruptcy on the part of the package organiser — Scope — Insolvency of the organiser on account of its fraudulent use of the funds transferred by consumers)

31.3.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 98/10
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 February 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Hamburg (Germany)) — Jürgen Blödel-Pawlik v HanseMerkur Reiseversicherung AG
   (Case C-134/11) (1)
   
   (Directive 90/314/EEC - Package travel, package holidays and package tours - Article 7 - Protection against the risk of insolvency or bankruptcy on the part of the package organiser - Scope - Insolvency of the organiser on account of its fraudulent use of the funds transferred by consumers)
   2012/C 98/13
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Landgericht Hamburg
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Jürgen Blödel-Pawlik
   
      Defendant: HanseMerkur Reiseversicherung AG
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Landgericht Hamburg — Interpretation of Article 7 of Council Directive 90/314/EEC of 13 June 1990 on package travel, package holidays and package tours (OJ 1990 L 158, p. 59) — Protection against the risk of insolvency or bankruptcy of the organiser — Insolvency of the organiser on account of misappropriation of the funds transferred by consumers — Applicability of Directive 90/314/EEC
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 7 of Council Directive 90/314/EEC of 13 June 1990 on package travel, package holidays and package tours is to be interpreted as covering a situation in which the insolvency of the travel organiser is attributable to its own fraudulent conduct.
   
      (1)  OJ C 179, 18.6.2011.