CELEX: 62012CN0537
Language: en
Date: 2012-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-537/12: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de Primera Instancia e Instrucción No 1 de Catarroja (Spain) lodged on 26 November 2012 — Banco Popular Español S.A. v Maria Teodolinda Rivas Quichimbo and Wilmar Edgar Cun Pérez

9.2.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 38/11
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de Primera Instancia e Instrucción No 1 de Catarroja (Spain) lodged on 26 November 2012 — Banco Popular Español S.A. v Maria Teodolinda Rivas Quichimbo and Wilmar Edgar Cun Pérez
   (Case C-537/12)
   2013/C 38/14
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Juzgado de Primera Instancia e Instrucción No 1 de Catarroja
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Banco Popular Español S.A.
   
      Defendants: Maria Teodolinda Rivas Quichimbo and Wilmar Edgar Cun Pérez
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               (Must) Directive 93/13/EEC (1) be interpreted as precluding national legislation which prevents a judicial authority hearing mortgage enforcement proceedings such as those governed by Articles 681 to 695 of the Spanish Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil 1/2000 from examining, either of its own motion or at the request of a party, the unfairness of a clause contained in a contract concluded between a supplier or seller and a consumer, whether or not the latter has formulated opposition(?)
            
         
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               Regardless of whether the answer to (that question) is positive or negative, (must) Directive 93/13 be interpreted as precluding national legislation which prevents a judicial authority hearing mortgage enforcement proceedings of the kind governed by Articles 681 to 695 of the Spanish Ley de Enjuiciamiento Civil 1/2000 from suspending those proceedings in the event that declaratory proceedings are subsequently initiated in which a declaration is sought as to the unfairness of a clause contained in the contract concluded between a supplier or seller and a consumer, the said contract having been relied upon to commence the abovementioned enforcement proceedings(?)
            
         
      (1)  Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29).