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Directive 93/13/EEC – Article 2(c) – Concept of ‘seller or supplier’ – Article 6(1) – Effects of the finding that such a term is unfair – Invalidity …","paragraph_id":"para_4"},{"text":"In Case C‑761/24,","paragraph_id":"para_5"},{"text":"REQUEST for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Budapest Környéki Törvényszék (Regional Court, Budapest, Hungary), made by decision of 10 October 2024, received at the Court on 5 November 2024, in the proceedings","paragraph_id":"para_6"},{"text":"HM,","paragraph_id":"para_7"},{"text":"JD","paragraph_id":"para_8"},{"text":"v","paragraph_id":"para_9"},{"text":"AXA Bank Belgium SA ,","paragraph_id":"para_10"},{"text":"OTP Bank Nyrt.,","paragraph_id":"para_11"},{"text":"OTP Faktoring Követeléskezelő Zrt.","paragraph_id":"para_12"},{"text":"THE COURT (Eighth Chamber),","paragraph_id":"para_13"},{"text":"composed of O. Spineanu-Matei, President of the Chamber, S. Rodin and N. Piçarra (Rapporteur), Judges,","paragraph_id":"para_14"},{"text":"Advocate General: D. Spielmann,","paragraph_id":"para_15"},{"text":"Registrar: A. Calot Escobar,","paragraph_id":"para_16"},{"text":"having regard to the written procedure,","paragraph_id":"para_17"},{"text":"after considering the observations submitted on behalf of:","paragraph_id":"para_18"},{"text":"–        HM and JD, by L. Marczingós, ügyvéd,","paragraph_id":"para_19"},{"text":"–        OTP Bank Nyrt. and OTP Faktoring Követeléskezelő Zrt., by A. Lendvai, ügyvéd,","paragraph_id":"para_20"},{"text":"–        the Hungarian Government, by D. Csoknyai and Z. Fehér, acting as Agents,","paragraph_id":"para_21"},{"text":"–        the European Commission, by O. Dani and P. Kienapfel, acting as Agents,","paragraph_id":"para_22"},{"text":"having decided, after hearing the Advocate General, to proceed to judgment without an Opinion,","paragraph_id":"para_23"},{"text":"gives the following","paragraph_id":"para_24"},{"text":"Judgment","paragraph_id":"para_25"},{"text":"1         This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 2(c), Article 6(1) and Article 7(1) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29).","paragraph_id":"para_26"},{"text":"2         The request has been made in proceedings between, on the one hand, two consumers, HM and JD (‘the two consumers’), and, on the other, three credit institutions, namely AXA Bank Belgium SA (‘AXA’), OTP Bank Nyrt. (‘OTP’) and OTP Faktoring Követeléskezelő Zrt. (‘OTP Faktoring’), concerning t …","paragraph_id":"para_27"},{"text":"Legal context","paragraph_id":"para_28"},{"text":"European Union law","paragraph_id":"para_29"},{"text":"3         The 21st and 24th recitals of Directive 93/13 state:","paragraph_id":"para_30"},{"text":"‘Whereas Member States should ensure that unfair terms are not used in contracts concluded with consumers by a seller or supplier and that if, nevertheless, such terms are so used, they will not bind the consumer, and the contract will continue to bind the parties upon those terms if it is capable of continuing in existence without the unfair provisions;","paragraph_id":"para_31"},{"text":"…","paragraph_id":"para_32"},{"text":"Whereas the courts or administrative authorities of the Member States must have at their disposal adequate and effective means of preventing the continued application of unfair terms in consumer contracts’.","paragraph_id":"para_33"},{"text":"4         Article 2(c) of that directive defines the term ‘seller or supplier’ as ‘any natural or legal person who, in contracts covered by this Directive, is acting for purposes relating to his trade, business or profession, whether publicly owned or privately owned’.","paragraph_id":"para_34"},{"text":"5         Article 6(1) of that directive provides:","paragraph_id":"para_35"},{"text":"‘Member States shall lay down that unfair terms used in a contract concluded with a consumer by a seller or supplier shall, as provided for under their national law, not be binding on the consumer and that the contract shall continue to bind the parties upon those terms if it is capable of continuing in existence without the unfair terms.’","paragraph_id":"para_36"},{"text":"6         Under Article 7(1) of that directive:","paragraph_id":"para_37"},{"text":"‘Member States shall ensure that, in the interests of consumers and of competitors, adequate and effective means exist to prevent the continued use of unfair terms in contracts concluded with consumers by sellers or suppliers.’","paragraph_id":"para_38"},{"text":"Hungarian law","paragraph_id":"para_39"},{"text":"The Civil Code","paragraph_id":"para_40"},{"text":"7         Paragraph 6:202 of the Polgári Törvénykönyvről szóló 2013. évi V. törvény (Law No V of 2013 on the Civil Code), in the version applicable to the dispute in the main proceedings (‘the Civil Code’), entitled ‘Transfer of rights’, stipulates in paragraph 3:","paragraph_id":"para_41"},{"text":"‘The relevant provisions on the transfer of claims shall apply mutatis mutandis to the transfer of rights.’","paragraph_id":"para_42"},{"text":"8         Paragraph 6:208 of the Civil Code entitled ‘Effects of the transfer of a contract’ provides:","paragraph_id":"para_43"},{"text":"‘(1)      The transferor, the counter-party and the transferee may agree to transfer all of the rights and obligations of the transferor to the transferee.","paragraph_id":"para_44"},{"text":"(2)      The transferee shall be subrogated in all the rights and obligations of the transferor vis-à-vis the counter-party under the contract in question. The transferee shall not set off any other claim which the transferor may hold over the counter-party. The counter-party shall not set off any other claim which it holds over the transferor.","paragraph_id":"para_45"},{"text":"(3)      Any guarantees in relation to the transferred rights shall be maintained. Any guarantees in relation to the implementation of the transferred obligations shall be extinguished, unless the guarantor consents to the transfer of the contract.’","paragraph_id":"para_46"},{"text":"Law No CCXXXVII. of 2013","paragraph_id":"para_47"},{"text":"9         Pursuant to Paragraph 17(1) of the hitelintézetekről és a pénzügyi vállalkozásokról szóló 2013. évi CCXXXVII. törvény (Law No CCXXXVII. of 2013 on credit institutions and financial undertakings):","paragraph_id":"para_48"},{"text":"‘Subject to approval by the [Magyar Nemzeti Bank (National Bank of Hungary) acting as a surveillance authority], savings portfolios and any other repayable funds, including portfolios of framework contracts for the provision of payment services, may be transferred (by means of an agreement) between …","paragraph_id":"para_49"},{"text":"The dispute in the main proceedings and the questions referred for a preliminary ruling","paragraph_id":"para_50"},{"text":"10       On 12 June 2008, the two consumers concluded a loan agreement with the legal predecessor of AXA, denominated in Swiss francs (CHF) in the sum of CHF 141 536.00, which was equivalent to approximately 20 075 000 forint (HUF) converted at the foreign exchange buying rate set by the credit inst …","paragraph_id":"para_51"},{"text":"11       AXA terminated that loan agreement with effect from 4 June 2013 due to alleged arrears attributable to the two consumers. The closing accounts drawn up on 4 March 2015 appeared to show an outstanding debt due to AXA in the sum of 42 815 836 HUF.","paragraph_id":"para_52"},{"text":"12       On 21 October 2015, the two consumers brought an action against AXA before the Budapest Környéki Törvényszék (Budapest Regional Court, Hungary), which is the referring court, asking it, first, to declare that the loan agreement was invalid on the ground that it contained unfair terms which, for that reason, could not be enforced against them, and, second, to remedy the consequences of that invalidity.","paragraph_id":"para_53"},{"text":"13       On 31 October 2016, AXA transferred a portfolio of contracts, including the loan agreement at issue in the main proceedings and all of the related rights and obligations, to OTP. On 2 November 2016, OTP transferred the claim resulting from that loan agreement to OTP Faktoring.","paragraph_id":"para_54"},{"text":"14       By interim judgment of 25 October 2022, the referring court declared that loan agreement to be invalid in its entirety, based on the non-compliant information on the exchange risk. However, by order of 19 April 2023, that judgment was overturned on appeal and the case was remitted to the referring court.","paragraph_id":"para_55"},{"text":"15       On 21 September 2023, the referring court, taking the view that it was also responsible for determining which of the credit institutions concerned was subject to the penalties provided for in Directive 93/13, made a request to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling on the interpretat …","paragraph_id":"para_56"},{"text":"16       By order of 9 April 2024, AXA Bank Europe and Others (C‑628/23, EU:C:2024:317), that request was dismissed as manifestly inadmissible on the ground that it did not meet the requirements of Article 94 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court.","paragraph_id":"para_57"},{"text":"17       Before the referring court, the two consumers contest national case-law according to which the legal consequences of the invalidity of a contract containing unfair terms, concluded between a consumer and a seller or supplier, may not be invoked against the transferee of the contract. They s …","paragraph_id":"para_58"},{"text":"18       According to that court, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Code on the transfer of contracts, which are also applicable to the transfer of portfolios, where a loan agreement is declared invalid, the consumer wishing to seek the repayment of any overpayment can act only against …","paragraph_id":"para_59"},{"text":"19       Furthermore, that court is uncertain whether the deterrent effect that Directive 93/13 attaches to the finding that a contract term is unfair could be enforced against the transferee, even though the latter is not responsible for that term being used in the contract concerned.","paragraph_id":"para_60"},{"text":"20       Accordingly, the referring court asks the Court of Justice, in essence, to determine, with reference to Directive 93/13, the seller or supplier against whom the two consumers may assert their claims vis-à-vis the legal consequences of the invalidity of the loan agreement at issue in the mai …","paragraph_id":"para_61"},{"text":"21       In those circumstances, the Budapest Környéki Törvényszék (Regional Court, Budapest) decided to stay the proceedings and to refer the following questions to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling:","paragraph_id":"para_62"},{"text":"‘(1)      Do [Article] 6(1) and [Article] 7(1) of [Directive 93/13] preclude national case-law or an interpretation of domestic law [by a national court] which, in the event that a consumer contract is found to be totally invalid on account of an unfair term applied therein:","paragraph_id":"para_63"},{"text":"–        does not remedy the legal consequences of the invalidity in the legal relationship between the original lender and the consumer as debtor, because national legislation makes it possible for the original lender and a third party to conclude an agreement that results in a change in the parties to the contract [but]","paragraph_id":"para_64"},{"text":"–        remedies the legal consequences of the invalidity only as between the consumer and the successor in law entering the contractual relationship as a new party as a result of the transfer of the contract, in such a way that the consumer is obliged to make any payment to the new party to the co …","paragraph_id":"para_65"},{"text":"(2)      Does national case-law or an interpretation of domestic law, according to which the legal consequences of the invalidity of an unfair consumer contract may be inferred only as between the current parties to that contract, that is to say between the new lender entering the contractual relati …","paragraph_id":"para_66"},{"text":"Consideration of the questions referred","paragraph_id":"para_67"},{"text":"Admissibility of the questions referred","paragraph_id":"para_68"},{"text":"22       AXA submits that the questions referred are inadmissible on the ground that they do not bear any relation to the dispute in the main proceedings and that, therefore, they are purely hypothetical. First, the invalidity of the loan agreement at issue in the main proceedings cannot be accepted …","paragraph_id":"para_69"},{"text":"23       According to settled case-law, in the context of the cooperation between the Court and the national courts provided for in Article 267 TFEU, it is solely for the national court before which a dispute has been brought, and which must assume responsibility for the subsequent judicial decision …","paragraph_id":"para_70"},{"text":"24       Questions relating to EU law thus enjoy a presumption of relevance. The Court of Justice may refuse to rule on a question referred for a preliminary ruling by a national court only where it is quite obvious that the interpretation of EU law that is sought bears no relation to the actual fac …","paragraph_id":"para_71"},{"text":"25       Furthermore, in the context of the procedure provided for in Article 267 TFEU, which is based on a clear separation of functions between the national courts and the Court of Justice, only the national courts may establish and assess the facts of the dispute in the main proceedings and deter …","paragraph_id":"para_72"},{"text":"26       In the present case, the line of argument relied on by AXA in support of the hypothetical nature of the questions referred concern the establishment and assessment of the facts in the main proceedings. It is not for the Court of Justice to call that establishment and assessment into questio …","paragraph_id":"para_73"},{"text":"27       Accordingly, the questions referred for a preliminary ruling are admissible.","paragraph_id":"para_74"},{"text":"Substance","paragraph_id":"para_75"},{"text":"28       By its questions, which it is appropriate to examine together, the referring court asks, in essence, whether Article 2(c), Article 6(1) and Article 7(1) of Directive 93/13 must be interpreted as precluding national legislation under which a consumer, having concluded a contract with a credi …","paragraph_id":"para_76"},{"text":"29       In the first place, Article 2(c) of that directive defines the concept of ‘seller or supplier’ as any natural or legal person who, in contracts covered by that directive, is acting for purposes relating to his or her trade, business or profession, whether such activity is publicly or privately owned.","paragraph_id":"para_77"},{"text":"30       The broad definition of the concept of ‘seller or supplier’ that the EU legislature thus intended to confer on it (see, to that effect, judgment of 27 October 2022, S. V. (Building in co-ownership) , C‑485/21, EU:C:2022:839, paragraph 28 and the case-law cited) precludes an interpretation o …","paragraph_id":"para_78"},{"text":"31       Such an interpretation of Article 2(c) of Directive 93/13 would, furthermore, be incompatible with the objective, pursued by that directive, of ensuring a high level of consumer protection (see, to that effect, judgment of 8 May 2025, Myszak , C‑324/23, EU:C:2025:324, paragraph 44 and the c …","paragraph_id":"para_79"},{"text":"32       It follows from the foregoing that a credit institution, being the transferee of a loan agreement concluded with a consumer, falls under the concept of ‘seller or supplier’ within the meaning of Article 2(c) of Directive 93/13. However, based on that provision alone, it cannot be determined whether it is only against that transferee that the legal consequences of the invalidity of the unfair clause in that contract may be invoked.","paragraph_id":"para_80"},{"text":"33       In the second place, Article 6(1) of Directive 93/13, read in conjunction with the 21st recital thereof, obliges Member States to ensure that unfair terms used in a contract concluded with a consumer by a seller or supplier are not to be binding on consumers, ‘as provided for under their national law’, and that that contract is to continue to bind the parties upon those terms if it is capable of continuing in existence without the unfair terms.","paragraph_id":"para_81"},{"text":"34       However, the regulation by national law of the protection guaranteed to consumers by Directive 93/13 may not alter the scope or, therefore, the substance of that protection and thus affect the strengthening of the effectiveness of that protection by the adoption of uniform rules of law in respect of unfair terms (judgment of 16 March 2023, M.B. and Others (Effects of the invalidation of a contract) , C‑6/22, EU:C:2023:216, paragraph 20 and the case-law cited).","paragraph_id":"para_82"},{"text":"35       That regulation by national law likewise may not make it excessively difficult, if not practically impossible, to exercise the rights that consumers derive from that directive. In particular, Member States must oversee compliance with the protection granted to the consumer by that directive …","paragraph_id":"para_83"},{"text":"36       It follows from the foregoing that Article 6(1) of Directive 93/13 must be interpreted as meaning that, where a contract concluded by a consumer with a seller or supplier has been transferred to a third party having the status of a seller or supplier in accordance with the applicable nation …","paragraph_id":"para_84"},{"text":"37       In the third place, Article 7(1) of Directive 93/13, read in conjunction with the 24th recital thereof, obliges Member States to ensure that, in the interests of consumers and of competitors, adequate and effective means exist to prevent the continued use of unfair terms in contracts concluded with consumers by sellers or suppliers.","paragraph_id":"para_85"},{"text":"38       In addition to the primary and immediate objective, which consists in protecting the consumer from unfair terms used in contracts that he or she concludes with sellers or suppliers by restoring, legally and factually, the situation in which the consumer would have been in if such unfair ter …","paragraph_id":"para_86"},{"text":"39       It follows that the deterrent effect as regards the use of unfair terms concerns sellers or suppliers in general, and not only the individual seller or supplier who introduced the contested unfair term.","paragraph_id":"para_87"},{"text":"40       In that regard, it must be pointed out that, under Directive 93/13, the invalidity of a contract term does not depend on the wrongful conduct of the seller or supplier concerned or on the fact that the he or she must bear the consequences thereof, rather it depends only on the objective unfairness of the contested contract term (see, to that effect, judgment of 22 April 2021, Profi Credit Slovakia , C‑485/19, EU:C:2021:313, paragraph 65).","paragraph_id":"para_88"},{"text":"41       It follows that that directive does not exclude the legal consequences arising from the unfairness of a term used in a contract concluded with a consumer from being borne by a seller or supplier other than the one who introduced that term.","paragraph_id":"para_89"},{"text":"42       In the present case, it is for the referring court to assess whether the interpretation of the relevant national provisions by the Hungarian courts is such as to jeopardise restoring the legal and factual situation that the two consumers would have been in had the unfair term in question not existed.","paragraph_id":"para_90"},{"text":"43       However, the Court, in the context of a reference for a preliminary ruling, may provide the referring court with guidance, on the basis of the documents relating to the main proceedings and the observations which have been submitted to it, in order to enable that court to resolve the dispute before it (see, to that effect, judgment of 2 March 2023, PrivatBank and Others , C‑78/21, EU:C:2023:137, paragraph 71).","paragraph_id":"para_91"},{"text":"44       It follows from the request for a preliminary ruling that, in accordance with Paragraph 17(1) of Law No CCXXXVII. of 2013 on credit institutions and financial undertakings, the transfer of the loan agreement at issue in the main proceedings was submitted for approval to the National Bank of Hungary acting as a surveillance authority. That measure appears, in principle, to protect the interests of consumers.","paragraph_id":"para_92"},{"text":"45       However, in order to ensure that the high level of consumer protection intended by Directive 93/13 is guaranteed and, in particular, that such a transfer does not deprive the consumer in question of rights that are guaranteed to him or her under Article 6(1) of that directive, it is for the …","paragraph_id":"para_93"},{"text":"46       Moreover, it follows from the national legal context described by the referring court that the transferee of the loan agreement at issue in the main proceedings, as an interested party, assumed all the transferor’s rights and obligations vis-à-vis the counter-party under that loan agreement …","paragraph_id":"para_94"},{"text":"47       In the light of the above, it does not appear, subject to verification by the referring court, that, in the present case, it would be excessively difficult or practically impossible to remedy the legal consequences of the invalidity of the unfair term at issue in the main proceedings within the scope of the relationship between the two consumers and the transferee of that loan agreement.","paragraph_id":"para_95"},{"text":"48       However, should that court arrive at the conclusion that the applicable provisions of its domestic law do not ensure the restitution of the legal and factual situation which the two consumers would have found themselves in if the unfair term at issue had not existed, the principle that nati …","paragraph_id":"para_96"},{"text":"49       Where it is unable to interpret national law in compliance with the requirements of EU law, the national court which is called upon within the exercise of its jurisdiction to apply provisions of EU law has an obligation, as an organ of a Member State, to give full effect to those provisions …","paragraph_id":"para_97"},{"text":"50       In the light of all the foregoing considerations, the answer to the questions raised is that Article 2(c), Article 6(1) and Article 7(1) of Directive 93/13 must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation under which a consumer, having concluded a contract with a credit institutio …","paragraph_id":"para_98"},{"text":"Costs","paragraph_id":"para_99"},{"text":"51       Since these proceedings are, for the parties to the main proceedings, a step in the action pending before the referring court, the decision on costs is a matter for that court. 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