The Court of Justice will not rule on the first preliminary reference on the AI Act, as the dispute in Case C-806/24 has ended

By order of 3 June 2026 the Court of Justice held that there is no longer any need to rule in Case C-806/24 Yettel Bulgaria. It was the first preliminary reference directly concerning the AI Act. The Sofia District Court asked, among other things, whether a consumer has a right under Article 86(1) of the AI Act to an explanation of how a mobile operator arrived at automatically generated bills, and whether a court may request information on the algorithm or source code. Further questions concerned the consumer protection directives.

The operator withdrew its action against the consumer, and the case was struck out before the national court. The referring court wished to maintain the questions because of their importance for EU law, but the Court of Justice does not answer hypothetical questions. The interpretation of Article 86 therefore remains open.