(Case C-200/21 Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunalul București (Romania) lodged on 31March 2021– TU and SU v BRD Groupe Société Générale S.A. and Next Capital Solutions Limited

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunalul București (Romania) lodged on 31March 2021– TU and SU v BRD Groupe Société Générale S.A. and Next Capital Solutions Limited

(Case C-200/21)

Language of the case: Romanian

Referring court

Tribunalul București

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellants: TU and SU

Respondents: BRD Groupe Société Générale S.A. and Next Capital Solutions Limited

Question referred

Does Directive 93/13/EEC¹ preclude a rule of national law, such as that resulting from Article712 et seq. of Chapter VI of the Code of Civil Procedure, which lays down a period of 15days within which a debtor may, by way of an objection to enforcement, rely on the unfairness of a contractual term of the enforceable instrument, given that an action seeking to establish the existence of unfair terms in an enforceable instrument is not subject to any time limit and, in this connection, a debtor may seek suspension of enforcement of the instrument under Article638(2) of the Code of Civil Procedure?

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¹ Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts (OJ 1993 L95, p.29).