CELEX: 62016CN0506
Language: en
Date: 2016-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-506/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal da Relação do Porto (Portugal) lodged on 26 September 2016 — José Joaquim Neto de Sousa v Portuguese State

5.12.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 454/19
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal da Relação do Porto (Portugal) lodged on 26 September 2016 — José Joaquim Neto de Sousa v Portuguese State
      (Case C-506/16)
      (2016/C 454/34)
      Language of the case: Portuguese
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunal da Relação do Porto
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: José Joaquim Neto de Sousa
      
         Defendant: Portuguese State
      
         Question referred
      
      Do the requirements of the Second (1) and Third (2) Directives on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles preclude the national legislation from providing for the culpable driver to be compensated, in respect of pecuniary damage, in the event that his spouse, who was a passenger in the vehicle, dies, in accordance with Article 7(3) of Decree-Law No 522 of 31 December 1985, as amended by Decree-Law No 130 of 19 May 1994?
      
         (1)  Second Council Directive 84/5/EEC of 30 December 1983 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles (OJ 1984 L 8, p. 17).
      
         (2)  Third Council Directive 90/232/EEC of 14 May 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles (OJ 1990 L 129, p. 33).