CELEX:62020CA0145: Case C-145/20: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 July 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof — Austria) — DS v Porsche Inter Auto GmbH & Co. KG, Volkswagen AG (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Approximation of laws — Regulation (EC) No 715/2007 — Approval of motor vehicles — Article 5(2) — Defeat device — Motor vehicles — Diesel engines — Emission control system — Software installed in the electronic engine controller — Exhaust gas recirculation valve (‘EGR valve’) — Reduction in nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions limited by a ‘temperature window’ — Prohibition on the use of defeat devices that reduce the effectiveness of emission control systems — Article 5(2)(a) — Exception to that prohibition — Consumer protection — Directive 1999/44/EC — Sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees — Article 2(2)(d) — Concept of ‘goods which show the quality and performance which are normal in goods of the same type and which the consumer can reasonably expect, given the nature of the goods’ — Vehicle covered by an EC type-approval — Article 3(6) — Concept of a ‘minor lack of conformity’)
September 5, 2022
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