Rechtsprechung

  • Rechtssachenbeschreibung
    • Nationale Kennung: 6 U 24/05
    • Mitgliedstaat: Deutschland
    • Gebräuchliche Bezeichnung:N/A
    • Art des Beschlusses: Sonstiges
    • Beschlussdatum: 07/12/2005
    • Gericht: Oberlandesgericht
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    • Schlagworte: Rechtsprechung Deutschland Deutsch
  • Artikel der Richtlinie
    Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, Article 3, 2. Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, Article 4 Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, Article 6 , 2. Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive, Article 7, 1.
  • Leitsatz
    Wird ein Auto, dass aus Deutschland fabrikneu in einen Mitgliedsstaat der Europäischen Union exportiert worden war, als gebrauchtes Kfz wieder nach Deutschland importiert, muss der Händler (Verkäufer) dem Käufer diese Tatsache offenbaren.
    Der Umstand, dass es sich um ein reimportiertes Kfz handelt, ist auf dem deutschen Gebrauchtwagenmarkt zurzeit noch ein erheblicher preisbildender Faktor. Verschweigt der Verkäufer diesen Umstand, kann der Käufer den Kaufvertrag wegen arglistiger Täuschung gem. § 123 Abs. 1 BGB anfechten.
    Aus der Richtlinie 1999/44 des Europäischen Parlamentes und des Rates vom 25. Mai 1999 zu bestimmten Aspekten des Verbrauchsgüterkaufs und der Garantien für Verbrauchsgüter oder aus der Rechtsprechung des Gerichtshofs der Europäischen Gemeinschaften folgt zwar nicht, dass die Reimporteigenschaft des gebrauchten Kfz als Sachmangel im Sinne des § 434 BGB zu bewerten ist. Aber zugunsten des Verkäufers ist aus der Verbraucherschutzrichtlinie andererseits auch nicht abzuleiten, dass der Gebrauchtwagenhändler (Letztverkäufer) dem Verbraucher (Käufer) die Reimporteigenschaft verschweigen darf.
  • Sachverhalt
    The defendant operated a business dealing in second-hand cars. The plaintiff wanted to return a second-hand car bought from the defendant versus the repayment of the purchase price, since the defendant had concealed the fact that the car had been re-imported from Spain. The claim had been dismissed in the first instance.
  • Rechtsfrage
  • Entscheidung

    The Higher Regional Court has for the most part upheld the plaintiff’s appeal. The plaintiff was entitled to a right to unwind the contract of sale under § 812(1)(2) 1st case BGB, since she had avoided the contract on the grounds of deceit under §§ 142(1), 143(1), 123(1) BGB. The right to avoid the contract arose from § 123(1) BGB. The defendant or her employees had induced the plaintiff to make her declaration of intent by deceit by concealing the fact that the car had been re-imported.

    In principle, each party was responsible for safeguarding its own interests. Thus, there was no general duty to disclose all facts which could possibly be relevant to the other party’s decision-making. On the other hand, facts which were clearly and evidently of crucial importance for the decision-making of the other party had to be disclosed without prior question. Accordingly, deceit in the terms of § 123 BGB required that the seller had concealed a fact he was obliged to disclose while being aware of the fact and at least tacitly accepting that the buyer did not know about it and would not have concluded the contract of sale (or at least not to the agreed conditions), if he had known about it. In the current case the defendant would have had to disclose that the Audi A 2 in dispute had been re-imported from Spain. This fact was a price-defining factor. According to established case law, the fact that a second-hand car had been re-imported by a second-hand car dealer created an obligation to disclose this fact, since the initial registration in Germany was a significant price-defining factor, considering that – at the time these cases had been decided – the price structure on the market for imported cars produced considerably lower prices. A potential buyer would have been suspicious due to the fact that the car had been imported, which would have been documented in the registration document. This distrust had resulted in a lower market price, albeit a certain change could be noticed recently.

    Community law did not withstand this obligation of disclosure. The opposite could neither deducted from the EC treaty nor from the Consumer Sales Directive or the judicature of the European Court of Justice.

    The culpable omission to disclose the fact that the car had been re-imported also was concurrently causative for the conclusion of the contract. It was the experience gained from daily life that the omission of a fact reducing the value of the good purchased was at least partly causative for the decision to conclude the contract.

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