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COMMISSION NOTICE Guidance on the interpretation and application of Council Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair terms in consumer contracts · European Union

The Court has drawn from Articles 4(2) and 5, sometimes referring also to Recital 20 and the Annex to the UCTD, in particular Points 1(i) and (j), transparency standards, including information requirements, which go beyond the aspects referred to above. In that respect, the Court also uses the term ‘substantive transparency requirements’ (176). According to the Court, transparency requires more than contract terms being formally and grammatically intelligible and implies that consumers must be able to evaluate the economic consequences of a contract term or contract (177):

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.