Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Oradea (Romania) lodged on 7 March 2014 — Horațiu Ovidiu Costea v SC Volksbank România SA
(Case C-110/14)
Language of the case: Romanian
Referring court
Judecătoria Oradea
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Horațiu Ovidiu Costea
Defendant: SC Volksbank România SA
Question referred
Must Article 2(b) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts 1 be interpreted as including in, or as excluding from, the definition of ‘consumer’ a natural person who practises as a lawyer and concludes a credit agreement with a bank, in which the purpose of the credit concerned is not specified, when in that agreement that natural person’s law firm is stated to be the guarantor for the mortgage?
____________1 OJ 1993 L 95, p. 29.