Jurisprudência

  • Informações sobre o processo
    • ID nacional: Supreme Court of Justice, Judgement 1066/14.1T8PDL.L1. S1
    • Estado-Membro: Portugal
    • Designação comum:N/A
    • Tipo de decisão: Decisão do Supremo Tribunal
    • Data da decisão: 17/10/2019
    • Tribunal: Supremo Tribunal de Justiça
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    • Palavras-chave: Consumer rights, consumer guarantee
  • Artigos da diretiva
    Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, Article 1, 2., (a)
  • Nota introdutória

    Extension to consumer goods in the context of a work contract.

    The contractor built the house, which was the object of two contracts: the first, contract work, and the second, a sale by the construction owner, in which the house was sold to the condominium members as part of their professional real estate business.

    For the application of the Consumer Protection Law the third buyer, Condominium, is qualified as a consumer as if he had been a party to the first contract.

  • Factos

    The Condominium requested the condemnation of the construction company to eliminate the defects of the contracted work.

    Several anomalies were detected in early 2013, but so far, they have not yet been repaired.

    The defects put at risk the safety of people and the property and contributed to the deterioration of infrastructure.

    The defendant challenged the expiration of the proceedings on the grounds that the work had been concluded in November 2008 and that the five-year period provided for in Article 1225(1) of the Civil Code had elapsed at the time the action was brought, in addition to the one-year period that had already elapsed since the date of the complaint.

    After the final hearing, a judgement was handed down granting the exception to the forfeiture of the right to eliminate the defects and acquitted the defendant of all the claims.

    The Condominium appealed against the decision and the Court of First Instance found the appeal to be unfounded. The appeal was upheld in part, revoking the contested decision in so far as it upheld the limitation period for the defects complained of in August 2013.

  • Questões jurídicas

    Can the Condominium be regarded as a consumer for the purposes of applying the consumer protection regime in the event of non-performance of the work contract?

  • Decisão

    In view of the factuality, the Condominium was recognised as a consumer, as one who uses the good supplied or provided by a professional for a non-professional use.

    It is important to bear in mind that the reality we are dealing with is horizontal property where a figure of fiction has been created that is neither a collective person nor a singular person who is duly represented in court, by the respective administrator, for the realisation of the rights that are incumbent on all the Condominium members. Each Condominium member is a consumer in relation to the fraction he or she owns. In relation to the common parts of the building in which this autonomous fraction is integrated, the administration is the responsibility of the Condominium members' meeting and a director.

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  • Resultado

    The Court upheld the Second Instance Court judgement.

    Through this judgement, the Court considered that for the application of the Consumer Protection Law the third buyer, Condominium, is qualified as a consumer as if he had been a party to the first contract.