Giurisprudenza

  • Dettagli del caso
    • ID nazionale: n. 1590
    • Stato membro: Italia
    • Nome comune:N/A
    • Tipo di decisione: Altro
    • Data della decisione: 21/02/2011
    • Organo giurisdizionale: Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale (Roma)
    • Oggetto:
    • Attore: S.D. s.r.l.
    • Convenuto: Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato
    • Parole chiave: administrative authority, information requirements, price indication, price information, timeshare contract
  • Articoli della direttiva
    Timeshare Directive, Article 2, 1., (a) Timeshare Directive, Article 4, 1. Timeshare Directive, Article 4, 1., (a)
  • Nota introduttiva
    (1) It is not the articulation of the price inherent to the nature of the good or the service offered that obeys to an autonomous commercial choice which determines the misleading character of the commercial communication but rather the choice to emphasize a basic price different from the final price that can mislead the consumer if not connected with presentation modalities of the message, taken in its whole, that allows a clear and immediate perception of the effective and final price.
    (2) The advertising of touristic services with the timesharing formula as used by the plaintiff is likely to induce false beliefs in the mind of the consumer with regards to the characteristics and the convenience of the plaintiff's offers, rendering in particular incomprehensible the nature of the right at issue in the various offers and the differences between offers conferring a right to use or offers conferring a personal right, in violation of art. 70, paragraph 1 and art. 71 of the Consumer Code.
  • Fatti
    The defendant identified three modes of conduct by the plaintiff which amounted to an unfair commercial practice with regard to a timeshare contract, and issued a decision declaring that the plaintiff's conduct of requiring the subscribers of a timeshare contract to pay additional costs not mentioned in the contract and not known by the subscribers during the period of accommodation, its conduct of inserting a misleading advertising on the plaintiff's website, referring to its service as "complete solutions" and to its "New Holidays" timesharing formula, interpreting it as the opportunity to use an apartment or a bungalow in a residence contributing only partially to the costs and owning them during the period of accommodation and becoming the "owner of the holiday", as well as its more general conduct in relation to different offers, amounted to a unique unfair practice, taking into account the misleading commercial advertising with reference to the main features and prices of the products.

    The plaintiff claimed violation of articles 20, 21 and 22 of the Consumer Code in relation to the supposed misleading advertising communication, since the use of the term "timesharing" in its original English meaning identify both contracts attributing a right to use on immovable properties and contracts attributing personal rights.
    The plaintiff requested the annulment of the decision.
  • Questione giuridica
    (1) Is the articulation of the price an element to be considered in order to assess the misleading character of the commercial communication?
    (2) Is the original English term timesharing as referred to in art. 2, paragraph 1, lit. a) of the Directive 122/2008 and in article 69, paragraph 1, lit. a) of the Consumer Code to be interpreted as referring to both contracts conferring the right to use of an immovable property (accommodation) and contracts conferring personal rights?
  • Decisione

    (1) The court stated that article 70, paragraph 1, lit. h) [now article 71, para1, lit. a)] provides for the obligation to indicate the "global price" and not the decomposition of the price in several items.
    (2) The court stated that article 72 [now article 69, para 1, lit. a)] of the Consumer Code refers to the term "timesharing" only as a term identifying a contract with a right of use as its object and not to the whole range of activities and services provided by the trader and the offers marketed.

    Testo integrale: Testo integrale

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  • Risultato
    The plaintiff's request was denied.