Judikatura

  • Podrobnosti případu
    • Národní identifikační číslo: 4 As 98/2013 - 88
    • členský stát: Česko
    • Obecný název:N/A
    • Typ rozhodnutí: Správní rozhodnutí v odvolacím řízení
    • Datum vydání rozhodnutí: 17/01/2014
    • Soud: Nejvyšší správní soud
    • Předmět:
    • Žalobce: OMEGA PHARMA, a.s. (a legal person, a joint-stock company)
    • Žalovaný: Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání (The Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting)
    • Klíčová slova: average consumer
  • Články směrnice
    Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Chapter 2, Article 5, 3.
  • Úvodní poznámka
    An average consumer having the standard amount of information, who is observant and sensible, who is generally a benchmark for advertising assessment, is not critical to the extent that he/she would not be affected at all by the effects of advertising. In accordance with Article 5.3 of Directive 2005/29 / EC on unfair commercial practices in the internal market, it must be taken into account that if the target group of an advertisement is a group of ill people, they may be more gullible and less critical towards the advertisement which promises to cure their disease.
  • Skutkový stav
    The plaintiff submitted an advertisement for a nutrition supplement distributed by the plaintiff which was broadcasted repeatedly by a commercial TV company. The defendant began an administrative proceedings against the plaintiff at the instance of a civil association called 'Association of nutrition supplements consumers', due to the fact that the plaintiff failed to comply with the conditions set out by the Act on Advertising Regulation with regards to the content of a food advertisement. The plaintiff was subsequently fined CZK 800,000, as the ad informed consumers that the nutrition supplement would activate their immune system and help to strengthen the immune system immediately.
  • Právní otázky
    Who or what is an average consumer with regards to the regulation of advertising?
  • Rozhodnutí

    The concept of an average consumer cannot be regarded as a static term. On the contrary - it is crucial to take the specific characteristics of a particular target group into account, especially those characteristics that make the group of target consumers especially vulnerable. With regards to the EU regulation, commercial practices which are likely to materially distort the economic behaviour only of a clearly identifiable group of consumers who are particularly vulnerable to the practice or the underlying product because of their mental or physical infirmity, age or credulity in a way which the trader could reasonably be expected to foresee shall be assessed from the perspective of the average member of that group. In this case, it can be presumed that target consumers of this advertisement were people that had flu or a similar illness, because the advertisement was broadcast in January and February - in the peak of the flu season, especially with regards to the advertised product. Therefore, an average consumer who has a particular disease is undoubtedly more likely to believe certain allegations regarding the cure of the disease than an average consumer who is healthy. This argument speaks for a more severe evaluation of the advertisement in question.

    URL: http://www.nssoud.cz/files/SOUDNI_VYKON/2013/0098_4As__130_20140203093927_prevedeno.pdf

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  • Výsledek
    The appeal in cassation was rejected. The plaintiff was obliged to pay the administrative fine and the costs of proceedings.