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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8785

15 September 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 44
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Rules for rounding up telephone bills to nearest eurocent

Luxembourg, 14/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has instructed the Munich Landgericht on how to decide when telephone tariffs calculated on a per-minute basis should be rounded to the nearest eurocent by a German mobile telephone operator, O2.

The Court commented that the transition to the euro should be neutral and that a rounding practice should therefore not affect contractual obligations entered into by consumers and it should not have a real impact on the price...

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