CELEX: 62011CN0166
Language: en
Date: 2011-04-05 00:00:00
Title: Case C-166/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial de Oviedo (Spain) lodged on 5 April 2011 — Angel Lorenzo González Alonso v Nationale Nederlanden Vida Cia De Seguros y Reaseguros S.A.E

11.6.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 173/7
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial de Oviedo (Spain) lodged on 5 April 2011 — Angel Lorenzo González Alonso v Nationale Nederlanden Vida Cia De Seguros y Reaseguros S.A.E
   (Case C-166/11)
   2011/C 173/14
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Referring court
   
   Audiencia Provincial de Oviedo
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Angel Lorenzo González Alonso
   
      Defendant: Nationale Nederlanden Vida Cia De Seguros y Reaseguros S.A.E.
   
      Question referred
   
   Must Article 3(2)(d) of Council Directive 85/577/EEC (1) of 20 December 1985 to protect the consumer in respect of contracts negotiated away from business premises be interpreted restrictively so as not to cover a contract, concluded away from business premises, under which life assurance is offered in return for payment of a monthly premium to be invested, in varying proportions, in fixed-rate investments, variable-rate investments and financial investment products of the company itself?
   
      (1)  OJ 1985 L 372, p. 31.