Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 1 June 2017 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie — Poland) — Piotr Zarski v Andrzej Stadnicki

(Case C-330/16) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Combating late payments in commercial transactions - Directive 2011/7/EU - Commercial lease contracts of indefinite duration - Late rent payments - Contracts concluded before the period for transposing that directive had expired - National rules - Exclusion of such contracts from the temporal scope of that directive))

(2017/C 249/15)

Language of the case: Polish

Referring court

Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant: Piotr Zarski

Respondent: Andrzej Stadnicki

Operative part of the judgment

Article 12(4) of Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions must be interpreted as meaning that the Member States may exclude from the scope of that directive late payments in the performance of a contract concluded before 16 March 2013, even where those late payments occur after that date.

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(1)   OJ C 335, 12.9.2016.