Nuevas pautas del TJUE para la identificación del lugar de entrega de las mercancías en las compraventas internacionales a distancia

• Main Author: Nerea Magallón Elósegui
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales (AEPDIRI) 2012-01-01
• Series: Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales
• Subjects: Brussels Regulation 44/2001; international sales involving carriage of goods; place of delivery of goods; Incoterms; Reglamento de Bruselas 44/2001; contratos internacionales de compraventa a distancia; lugar de entrega de las mercancías
• Online Access: http://www.reei.org/index.php/revista/num23/notas/nuevas-pautas-tjue-para-identificacion-lugar-entrega-mercancias-compraventas-internacionales-distancia

The Court of Justice of the Union has recently addressed some doubts on the meaning of Article 5.1 b) of the Brussels Regulation 44/2001, related to the place of deliveryof goods. In two recent decisions (Cases C-381/98, Car Trim, and C-87/10, Electrosteel), the Court has sets new standards to be followed by national courts in order to determine the place of delivery of goods in international sales involving the carriage of goods. Together, these decisions represent a shift in the ECJ previous case law to a line of interpretation that departs from the use of lex contractus.