sec_4_4__para__13

The Court noted in its judgment that the notions of ‘given’ and ‘received’ are different from the term ‘provided’, which are used in other provisions of the Directive and which the Court regarded as a ‘neutral’ formulation: ‘It should also be noted in that regard that, whereas the European Union legislature opted, in Article 4(1) of Directive 97/7/EC, in the vast majority of the linguistic versions, for a neutral formulation, according to which the consumer is to be ‘provided’ with the relevant information, it chose, by contrast, a term with greater implications for the business in Article 5(1) of that directive, according to which the consumer must ‘receive’ confirmation of that information. […]’ (123).

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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.