CELEX: 62014CN0110
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-110/14: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Oradea (Romania) lodged on 7 March 2014  — Horațiu Ovidiu Costea v SC Volksbank România SA

10.6.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 175/21
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Oradea (Romania) lodged on 7 March 2014 — Horațiu Ovidiu Costea v SC Volksbank România SA
   (Case C-110/14)
   2014/C 175/25
   Language of the case: Romanian
   
      Referring court
   
   Judecătoria Oradea
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Horațiu Ovidiu Costea
   
      Defendant: SC Volksbank România SA
   
      Question referred
   
   Must Article 2(b) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (1) be interpreted as including in, or as excluding from, the definition of ‘consumer’ a natural person who practises as a lawyer and concludes a credit agreement with a bank, in which the purpose of the credit concerned is not specified, when in that agreement that natural person’s law firm is stated to be the guarantor for the mortgage?
   
      (1)  OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29.