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The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice delivered today its decision in joined Cases C‑154/15, C‑307/15 and C‑308/15 (Francisco Gutiérrez Naranjo v Cajasur Banco SAU, Ana María Palacios Martínez v Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (BBVA), Banco Popular Español, SA v Emilio Irles López, Teresa Torres Andreu), which is about Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts :

« Article 6(1) of Council Directive 93/13 [precludes] national case-law that temporally limits the restitutory effects connected with a finding of unfairness by a court, in accordance with Article 3(1) of that directive, in respect of a clause contained in a contract concluded between a consumer and a seller or supplier, to amounts overpaid under such a clause after the delivery of the decision in which the finding of unfairness is made ».

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