CELEX: 62016CN0330
Language: en
Date: 2016-06-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-330/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie (Poland) lodged on 10 June 2016 — Piotr Zarski v Andrzej Stadnicki

12.9.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 335/33
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie (Poland) lodged on 10 June 2016 — Piotr Zarski v Andrzej Stadnicki
   (Case C-330/16)
   (2016/C 335/45)
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Referring court
   
   Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Appellant: Piotr Zarski
   
      Respondent: Andrzej Stadnicki
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Does the letting of premises constitute a service within the meaning of Articles 2(1) and 3 (and recitals 2, 3, 7, 11, 18 and 23) of Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions? (1)
               
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the answer to Question 1 is in the affirmative, where a letting contract of indefinite duration is concluded, does the contract or the single, separate ‘transaction’, which is what each individual rental payment in return for access to the premises and utilities is, constitute a commercial transaction within the meaning of Articles 1(1), 2(1), 3, 6 and 8 (and recitals 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 26 and 35) of Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions?
            
         
               3.
            
            
               If in the answer to Question 2 it is established that each individual payment of rent in return for access to the premises and utilities does constitute a commercial transaction, must Articles 1(1), 2(1) and 12(4) (and recital 3) of Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions be interpreted as meaning that the Member States can exclude application of the directive to letting contracts concluded before 16 March 2013 in cases where late individual payments of rent occur after that date?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2011 L 48, p. 1.