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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10057

16 January 2010
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Allowing customers to take part free of charge in a lottery does not automatically constitute unfair commercial practice

Brussels, 15/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - In a judgment delivered on Thursday 14 January (case C-304/08), the EU Court of Justice ruled that allowing customers to take part, after a certain number of purchases, in a lottery free of charge does not automatically constitute an unfair commercial practice. The Court decided that, on the basis of Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices, national law may not prohibit such a promotional campaign without taking into account the specific...

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