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Unfair Contract Terms Directive, Article 7, 2.

This article provides comments on the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union dated of January 24, 2002.
It is not necessary to wait until the terms which were for a general use are actually used in individual contracts to allow judicial proceedings to be imitated. As key players in the fight against unfair terms, consumer associations may, proprio motu, bring an to take action aiming at the removal of unfair clauses, even in the absence of any individualized damage suffered by a consumer or of a consumer claim.