Jurisprudência

  • Informações sobre o processo
    • ID nacional: 14J/2016
    • Estado-Membro: Portugal
    • Designação comum:N/A
    • Tipo de decisão: Decisão administrativa objeto de recurso
    • Data da decisão: 30/11/2016
    • Tribunal: Instituto Civil da Autodisciplina da Comunicação Comercial
    • Assunto:
    • Requerente: PROCTER & GAMBLE PORTUGAL – PRODUTOS DE CONSUMO, HIGIENE E SAÚDE, S.A.
    • Requerido: RECKITT BENCKISER (PORTUGAL), S.A.
    • Palavras-chave: comparative advertising
  • Artigos da diretiva
    Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive, Article 4
  • Nota introdutória
    A product’s advertisement campaign containing a comparative expression that does not objectively compare one or more essential, relevant, verifiable and representative features of goods and services is not permitted.
  • Factos
    The plaintiff initiated a TV advertisement campaign for the sale of a dishwashing product which included the expression “Pills all-in-one best sold”. The defendant claimed that it is impossible for the average consumer to identify the best-selling product with which the product is compared, which amounts to a misleading advertising practice. The plaintiff claimed that the advertisement message is a valid comparative advertisement.
  • Questões jurídicas
    Is a product’s advertisement campaign containing a comparative expression that does not objectively compare one or more essential, relevant, verifiable and representative features of goods and services permitted?
  • Decisão

    The court considered that even though the plaintiff was comparing products, the advertising message did not objectively refer to one or more of the essential, relevant, verifiable and representative features of those goods, contrary to Article 4 of Directive 2006/114/EC, and therefore, the comparative advertisement campaign should not be permitted.

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  • Resultado
    The court upheld the first instance court's judgment.