Judgment_paragraph 58 · PV v Zamestnik izpalnitelen direktor na Darzhaven fond 'Zemedelie' (C-343/21)

58Furthermore, according to the case-law of the Court, force majeure is any event resulting from abnormal and unforeseeable circumstances, outside the control of the operator concerned, the consequences of which, in spite of the exercise of all due care, could not have been avoided (see, to that effect, judgments of 17 December 1970, Internationale Handelsgesellschaft, 11/70, EU:C:1970:114, paragraph 23, and of 17 December 2015, Szemerey, C‑330/14, EU:C:2015:826, paragraph 58).