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(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Consumer protection - Directive 93/13/EEC - Unfair terms in consumer contracts - Mortgage loan agreements - Term providing for a variable interest rate - Reference index based on the annual percentage rates of charge (APRC) of mortgage loans granted by credit institutions - Index established by a regulatory or administrative act - Information contained in the preamble to that act - Check relating to the requirement of transparency - Assessment of the unfair nature of the term)
(2023/C 321/16)
Language of the case: Spanish
Applicants: ZR, PI
Defendant: Banco Santander, SA
Article 3(1), Article 4 and Article 5 of Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts,
must be interpreted as meaning that, in order to assess the transparency and potential unfairness of a term in a variable-rate mortgage loan agreement that designates as a reference index, for the periodic review of the interest rate applicable to that loan, an index established by a notice the subject of an official publication, to which an increase is applied, the content of the information contained in another notice — indicating the need to apply to that index, in view of its method of calculation, a negative margin in order to align that interest rate with the market rate — is relevant. It is also relevant whether that information is sufficiently accessible for an average consumer.
(1) OJ C 326, 29.8.2022.