Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Germany) lodged on 11 October 2024 – Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e. V. v Vodafone GmbH

(Case C-669/24, Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband)

(C/2025/377)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant and appellant: Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e. V.

Defendant and respondent: Vodafone GmbH

Joined party: Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen

Question referred

Must the first subparagraph of Article 105(4) of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 (1) be interpreted as meaning

that providers of publicly available electronic communications services other than number-independent interpersonal communications services are given

the right unilaterally to change the contractual terms of the contract by operation of law and, in return, the end-user receives a special right of termination,

or does the provision assume that the provider has a right unilaterally to amend the contractual terms which already exists for other reasons, and does it merely govern the resulting special right of termination of the end-user?

(1)  Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (Recast) (OJ 2018 L 321, p. 36).