Being the reflection of mixed operations, banking contracts involve a number of peculiarities. In the present study, we aimed to highlight the particularities of banking contracts, especially as regards the admissibility of court intervention to remedy the nullity of unfair terms in credit agreements.The court which has established the unfairness of a clause in a consumer credit agreement is required to remove it application by de...

The concern of the European and national legislators for consumer protection is due to the fragile position it occupies in a credit agreement. The role of the CJEU is to establish a unitary standard for the interpretation of the provisions of Directive no 1993/13/EEC on unfair terms in consumer contracts, applicable in all Member States, but it is for the national courts to verify whether a clause contrary to the requirement of good fai...

After the intensification of the banking credit activity in the latter part of the 2000s, the economic crisis, the devaluation of the national currency and the decline of the purchasing power, the consumers that were parts in the credit contracts initiated legal actions against the commercial banks.Although the national legislation came into force several years before, the disputes in the matter of the protection of the consumer l...

The Court of Justice of the European Union held on a request for a preliminary ruling (Kásler v OTP Jelzálogbank Zrt, C-26/13, 30 April 2014) concerning the allegedly unfair contractual term relating to the exchange rate applicable to repayments of a loan denominated in a foreign currency. This paper gives further explanations for the answers of the Court and analyses the relevance of these answers for the Romanian consumer of...