CELEX: 62019CN0229
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-229/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof te Amsterdam (Netherlands) lodged on 14 March 2019 — Dexia Nederland BV v XXX

3.6.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 187/46
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Gerechtshof te Amsterdam (Netherlands) lodged on 14 March 2019 — Dexia Nederland BV v XXX
      (Case C-229/19)
      (2019/C 187/49)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Gerechtshof te Amsterdam
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Dexia Nederland BV
      
         Defendant: XXX
      
         Question referred
      
      Should Directive 93/13 (1) be interpreted as meaning that a contractual term, from the point of view of the criteria laid down in that directive, should already be regarded as unfair if that contractual term, assessed in the light of all the circumstances attending the conclusion of the contract, contains the mere possibility of causing a significant imbalance depending on the circumstances that materialise during the course of the contract, in particular because that contractual term fixes in advance a potential advantage that arises for the seller at the time of the premature termination of the contract, at a certain percentage of the remaining lease sum, thereby derogating from the applicable rules of national law under which such an advantage is not fixed in advance but must be determined on the basis of the circumstances attending the termination of the contract, in particular, the level of the interest rate that should be applied for the remaining duration of the contract to an amount received prematurely?
      
         (1)  Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29).