CELEX: 62011CA0410
Language: en
Date: 2012-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Case C-410/11: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 22 November 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona — Spain) — Pedro Espada Sánchez, Alejandra Oviedo Gonzáles, Lucía Espada Oviedo, Pedro Espada Oviedo v Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España SA (Air transport — Montreal Convention — Article 22(2) — Liability of carriers in respect of baggage — Limits of liability in the event of the destruction, loss, damage or delay of baggage — Shared baggage belonging to a number of passengers — Baggage checked in by one of those passengers)

26.1.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 26/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 22 November 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona — Spain) — Pedro Espada Sánchez, Alejandra Oviedo Gonzáles, Lucía Espada Oviedo, Pedro Espada Oviedo v Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España SA
   (Case C-410/11) (1)
   
   (Air transport - Montreal Convention - Article 22(2) - Liability of carriers in respect of baggage - Limits of liability in the event of the destruction, loss, damage or delay of baggage - Shared baggage belonging to a number of passengers - Baggage checked in by one of those passengers)
   2013/C 26/21
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Pedro Espada Sánchez, Alejandra Oviedo Gonzáles, Lucía Espada Oviedo, Pedro Espada Oviedo
   
      Defendant: Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España SA
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona — Interpretation of Articles 3(3) and 22(2) of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (Montreal Convention), (Council Decision 2001/539/EC, OJ 2001 L 194, p. 38) — Air carrier liability in respect of the carriage of passengers and their baggage by air — Limits of liability in the event of the destruction, loss, damage or delay of baggage
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 22(2) of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, concluded in Montreal on 28 May 1999, signed by the European Community on 9 December 1999 and approved on its behalf by Council Decision 2001/539/EC of 5 April 2001, read in conjunction with Article 3(3) of that convention, must be interpreted as meaning that the right to compensation and the limits to a carrier’s liability in the event of loss of baggage apply also to a passenger who claims that compensation by virtue of the loss of baggage checked in in another passenger’s name, provided that that lost baggage did in fact contain the first passenger’s items.
   
      (1)  OJ C 290, 1.10.2011.