CELEX: 62020CN0013
Language: en
Date: 2020-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-13/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Bruxelles (Belgium) lodged on 14 January 2020 — Top System SA v Belgian State

16.3.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 87/16
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d’appel de Bruxelles (Belgium) lodged on 14 January 2020 — Top System SA v Belgian State
      (Case C-13/20)
      (2020/C 87/20)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Cour d’appel de Bruxelles
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Top System SA
      
         Defendant: Belgian State
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Is Article 5(1) of Council Directive 91/250/EEC (1) of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs to be interpreted as permitting the lawful purchaser of a computer program to decompile all or part of that program where such decompilation is necessary to enable that person to correct errors affecting the operation of the program, including where the correction consists in disabling a function that is affecting the proper operation of the application of which the program forms a part?
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  In the event that that question is answered in the affirmative, must the conditions referred to in Article 6, or any other conditions, also be satisfied?
               
            
         (1)  OJ 1991, L 122, p. 42.