VSV/Kolba: compensation from VW not barred yet

Consumer protection Association helps with application to pattern declaratory

Vienna (OTS) – Austria the class-action lawsuit-action of the VKI comes to a Halt. Already four of the 16 state courts want to clarify beforehand the Senate occupation, and international jurisdiction.

„To this question, sixteen times up to the Supreme court and the ECJ has clarified, will take years,“ says Peter Kolba, head of the consumer protection Association from years of experience. „It is the responsibility of the consumer protection Minister Hartinger, to have taken this detour through actions in Austria provoked. I would have suggested the introduction of an Association pattern for a declaratory judgment, in Austria or in a class-action lawsuit in Germany. Both remained without the answer.“

In Germany, the vzbv on 1.11.2018 has brought against VW for a pattern for a declaratory judgment. You can be there – even as an Austrian-Damaged – cost – and risk-free up to the day before the first hearing of the suit register log in. So far there is no date for such a hearing.

„The VSV will help Austrian Victims on the website www.klagen-ohne-risiko.at in the formulation of the Declaration in the claim register of the Federal office of justice,“ opened Kolba an action that was completed in the autumn, after a thousand applications, new for the members of the VSV.

In Germany there is a clear legal opinions:

– the three-year limitation period begins to run only with the specific invitation to Update and

– in the Rest of the already the introduction of the action at the 1.11.2018 the current limitation has stopped.

„The claims are not time-barred, therefore, and it makes sense now but still log in, because the Federal court of justice (BGH), in the meantime, in a notice of decision has been given, that he will give the injured party VW customers probably right,“ said Kolba.

Service: tips and help for members on www.klagen-ohne-risiko.at

Dr. Peter Kolba, head of the VSV, +436602002437