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Document 62018CA0245

Case C-245/18: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 21 March 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Ordinario di Udine — Italy) — Tecnoservice Int. Srl, in liquidation v Poste Italiane SpA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Payment services in the internal market — Directive 2007/64/EC — Article 74(2) — Payment order by credit transfer — Incorrect unique identifier provided by the payer — Execution of the payment transaction on the basis of the unique identifier — Liability of the payee’s payment service provider)

OJ C 187, 3.6.2019, p. 28–29 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

3.6.2019   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 187/28


Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 21 March 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunale Ordinario di Udine — Italy) — Tecnoservice Int. Srl, in liquidation v Poste Italiane SpA

(Case C-245/18) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Payment services in the internal market - Directive 2007/64/EC - Article 74(2) - Payment order by credit transfer - Incorrect unique identifier provided by the payer - Execution of the payment transaction on the basis of the unique identifier - Liability of the payee’s payment service provider)

(2019/C 187/32)

Language of the case: Italian

Referring court

Tribunale Ordinario di Udine

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Tecnoservice Int. Srl, in liquidation

Defendant: Poste Italiane SpA

Operative part of the judgment

Article 74(2) of Directive 2007/64/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on payment services in the internal market amending Directives 97/7/EC, 2002/65/EC, 2005/60/EC and 2006/48/EC and repealing Directive 97/5/EC must be interpreted as meaning that, when a payment order is executed in accordance with the unique identifier provided by the payment service user, which does not correspond to the payee name indicated by that user, the limitation of payment service provider liability, provided for by that article, applies to both the payer’s and the payee’s payment service provider.


(1)  OJ C 249, 16.7.2018.


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