Brussels, 10/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Court of justice has stated in a ruling returned on Thursday 6 September in the case C-190/11 that a consumer has the option to bring a foreign trader before the courts of the country in which he or she resides even if the contract in dispute was not a distance contract. These national courts remain competent even if the interested party personally travelled to the trader's member state to sign the contract.
The Austrian Supreme Court asked the...