CELEX: 62013CN0567
Language: en
Date: 2013-11-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-567/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Törvényszék (Hungary) lodged on 5 November 2013 — Nóra Baczó and János István Vizsnyiczai v Raiffeisen Bank Zrt.

8.3.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 71/2
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Fővárosi Törvényszék (Hungary) lodged on 5 November 2013 — Nóra Baczó and János István Vizsnyiczai v Raiffeisen Bank Zrt.
      (Case C-567/13)
      (2014/C 71/02)
      Language of the case: Hungarian
      
         Referring court
      
      Fővárosi Törvényszék
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Nóra Baczó, János István Vizsnyiczai
      
         Defendant: Raiffeisen Bank Zrt.
      
         Questions referred
      
      
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                  In proceedings brought before a local court for a declaration of the invalidity of a contract (standard contract terms), in which the consumer also seeks in his application a declaration of the unfairness of a term of the contract at issue in the proceedings, and thereby provides a basis for the jurisdiction of another court, the county court (törvényszék), is there a disadvantage for the consumer, given that, in proceedings brought by the other party to the contract, the consumer can rely on the unfairness of a contract term (1) before the local court, and transfer to the county court burdens the consumer with higher costs?
               
            
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                  Would the situation be more equal if, in proceedings brought by the consumer before the local court for a declaration of the invalidity of a contract, the consumer were able also to rely on the unfairness of a term of the contract, as a result of which that local court would have jurisdiction?
               
            
         (1)  Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts; OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29.