January 2023

Energy: This is changing

There will be some innovations in the energy sector in 2023. The energy advice service of the consumer advice center provides information about these. Among other things, consumers should keep the energy efficiency regulations for new buildings, the capping of energy prices and the promotion of energy-saving investments on their radar. From 2023, for example, stricter requirements will apply to new buildings with regard to the...

Judgment: Annual fee from building society inadmissible

BHW-Bausparkasse is not allowed to charge an annual fee during the savings phase of home savings contracts. This was recently ruled by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH, AZ: XI ZR 551/21). In the case in question, the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv) brought an action against the aforementioned building society. The latter had demanded an annual fee of 12 euros from its customers with a building society account. Unjustly, as the BGH...

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