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Furthermore, the Court held that the concept of ‘consumer’ refers to an individual not engaged in commercial or trade activities (9). This second criterion should be interpreted in light of Recital 17, which introduces the qualification of ‘predominant use’: ‘[…] in the case of dual purpose contracts where the contract is concluded for purposes partly within and partly outside the person’s trade and the trade purpose is so limited as not to be predominant in the overall context of the contract that person should also be considered as a consumer’.

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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.