Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 3 October 2019

Jana Petruchová v FIBO Group Holdings Limited

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Nejvyšší soud České republiky

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 — Article 17(1) — Jurisdiction over consumer contracts — Notion of ‘consumer’ — Natural person carrying out transactions on the international exchange market through the intermediary of a brokerage company — Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 (Rome I) — Directive 2004/39/EC — Notion of ‘retail client’

Case C-208/18


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Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
22/11/2019 Petruchová
area of freedom, security and justice
- Judicial cooperation in civil matters
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Judicial cooperation in civil matters
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2019:825		 03/10/2019 Petruchová
area of freedom, security and justice
- Judicial cooperation in civil matters
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Judicial cooperation in civil matters
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2019:825		 03/10/2019 Petruchová
area of freedom, security and justice
- Judicial cooperation in civil matters
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Judicial cooperation in civil matters
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Application (OJ)
25/05/2018 Petruchová
area of freedom, security and justice
- Judicial cooperation in civil matters
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Judicial cooperation in civil matters
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Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2019:314		 11/04/2019 Petruchová
area of freedom, security and justice
- Judicial cooperation in civil matters
  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Judicial cooperation in civil matters
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
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Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.02 Judicial cooperation in civil matters
      4.06.02.01 Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments – Civil and commercial matters
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.02 Judicial cooperation in civil matters
      4.06.02.01 Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments – Civil and commercial matters
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.02 Freedom of establishment
      4.04.02.01 The various activities
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.03 Freedom to provide services
      4.04.03.01 The various services
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.02 Judicial cooperation in civil matters
      4.06.02.01 Jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of judgments – Civil and commercial matters
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.06 Area of freedom, security and justice
    4.06.02 Judicial cooperation in civil matters
      4.06.02.05 Conflicts of laws


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 23/03/2018

Date of the Opinion

  • 11/04/2019

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

03/10/2019


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 413 from 09.12.2019, p.10

Application: OJ C 200 from 11.06.2018, p.23

Name of the parties

Petruchová

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Mankowski, Peter: RIW-Kommentar, Recht der internationalen Wirtschaft 2019 p.0810-818 (DE)
  2. Nourissat, Cyril: Note à l'arrêt de la Cour du 3 octobre 2019, affaire C-208/18, Procédures 2019 nº 12 p.21-22 (FR)
  3. Idot, Laurence: Règlement "Bruxelles I bis". Notion de consommateur, Europe 2019 Décembre Comm. nº 12 p.49-50 (FR)
  4. Chacornac, Jérôme: La double autonomie de la notion de consommateur dans le règlement Bruxelles I bis en matière financière, Revue critique de droit international privé 2020 nº 2 p. 300-316 (FR)
  5. Tenenbaum, Aline: Les consommateurs et les opérations bancaires et financières : notion de consommateur, protection relative aux moyens de paiement et sanctions attachées aux clauses abusives, Revue des contrats 2020, n° 1, p. 83-87 (FR)
  6. Wendelstein, Christoph: Haftung von CFD-Brokern im europäischen Zuständigkeitsrecht : Anmerkung zu EuGH, Urt. v. 2.4.2020 : C-500/18, Reliantco und EuGH, Urt. v. 3.10.2019 : C-208/18 , Petruchová, Zeitschrift für das Privatrecht der Europäischen Union - GPR 2021 p. 7-14 (DE)
  7. Ho-Dac, Marion: Du dialogue interprétatif entre droit (matériel) de la consommation et droit international privé de l'Union - L'exemple du « for du consommateur », Revue critique de droit international privé 2022, nº 1, p. 47-62 (FR)
  8. Callens, Evariest ; Steennot, Reinhard: Complexe contracts for differences maken geen verschil voor de kwalificatie als consument : Hof van Justitie, 03/10/2019, C-208/18, Revue de droit commercial belge 2022 p. 62-68 (NL)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Nejvyšší soud České republiky - Czech Republic

Subject-matter

  • area of freedom, security and justice
  • - Judicial cooperation in civil matters

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

Première chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Safjan

Advocate General

Tanchev

Language(s) of the Case

  • Czech

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • English