28.9.2015

Official Journal of the European Union

C 320/2

Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de Primera Instancia — Spain) — Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, SA v Fernando Quintano Ujeta, María Isabel Sánchez García

(Case C-602/13) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 93/13/EEC - Contractual relationship between a seller or a supplier and a consumer - Mortgage contract - Default interest clause - Early repayment clause - Mortgage enforcement proceedings - Moderation of the amount of interest - Powers of the national court))

(2015/C 320/02)

Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Juzgado de Primera Instancia

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, SA

Defendant: Fernando Quintano Ujeta, María Isabel Sánchez García

Operative part of the order

Articles 6(1) and 7(1) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts must be interpreted as meaning that they do not preclude national provisions for moderating default interest under a mortgage contract, provided that those national provisions:

—	do not prejudice to the assessment by the national court hearing mortgage enforcement proceedings relating to that contract on the ‘unfairness’ of the default interest clause, and

—	do not prevent that court setting aside that clause should it conclude that the latter clause is ‘unfair’ within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 93/13.

Directive 93/13 must be interpreted as meaning that, where the national court has established the ‘unfairness’ within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 93/13 of a clause in a contract between a consumer and a seller or a supplier, the fact that that clause has not been executed cannot, in itself, prevent the national court drawing the appropriate conclusions from the ‘unfair’ nature of that clause.

(1) OJ C 31, 1.2.2014.