# C_2008022EN.01003501.xml

| 26.1.2008 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 22/35 |
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Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus (Finland) lodged on 23 November 2007 — A

(Case C-523/07)

(2008/C 22/63)

Language of the case: Finnish

Referring court

Korkein hallinto-oikeus

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: A

Questions referred

| 1. | (a)
Does Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003( 1 ) concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000, (the Brussels IIa Regulation) apply to the enforcement, such as in the present case, of a public-law decision made in connection with child protection, as a single decision, concerning the immediate taking into care of a child and his or her placement outside the home, in its entirety, (b)
or, having regard to the provision in Article 1(2)(d) of the regulation, only to the part of the decision relating to the placement outside the home? | (a) | Does Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003( 1 ) concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000, (the Brussels IIa Regulation) apply to the enforcement, such as in the present case, of a public-law decision made in connection with child protection, as a single decision, concerning the immediate taking into care of a child and his or her placement outside the home, in its entirety, | (b) | or, having regard to the provision in Article 1(2)(d) of the regulation, only to the part of the decision relating to the placement outside the home? |
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| (a) | Does Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003( 1 ) concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000, (the Brussels IIa Regulation) apply to the enforcement, such as in the present case, of a public-law decision made in connection with child protection, as a single decision, concerning the immediate taking into care of a child and his or her placement outside the home, in its entirety, | | | | |
| (b) | or, having regard to the provision in Article 1(2)(d) of the regulation, only to the part of the decision relating to the placement outside the home? | | | | |

| 2. | How is the concept of habitual residence in Article 8(1) of the regulation, like the associated Article 13(1), to be interpreted in Community law, bearing in mind in particular the situation in which a child has a permanent residence in one Member State but is staying in another Member State, carrying on a peripatetic life there? |
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| 3. | (a)
If it is considered that the child's habitual residence is not in the latter Member State, on what conditions may an urgent measure (taking into care) nevertheless be taken in that Member State on the basis of Article 20(1) of the regulation? (b)
Is a protective measure within the meaning of Article 20(1) of the regulation solely a measure which can be taken under national law, and are the provisions of national law concerning that measure binding when the article is applied? (c)
Must the case, after the taking of the protective measure, be transferred of the court's own motion to the court of the Member State with jurisdiction? | (a) | If it is considered that the child's habitual residence is not in the latter Member State, on what conditions may an urgent measure (taking into care) nevertheless be taken in that Member State on the basis of Article 20(1) of the regulation? | (b) | Is a protective measure within the meaning of Article 20(1) of the regulation solely a measure which can be taken under national law, and are the provisions of national law concerning that measure binding when the article is applied? | (c) | Must the case, after the taking of the protective measure, be transferred of the court's own motion to the court of the Member State with jurisdiction? |
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| (a) | If it is considered that the child's habitual residence is not in the latter Member State, on what conditions may an urgent measure (taking into care) nevertheless be taken in that Member State on the basis of Article 20(1) of the regulation? | | | | | | |
| (b) | Is a protective measure within the meaning of Article 20(1) of the regulation solely a measure which can be taken under national law, and are the provisions of national law concerning that measure binding when the article is applied? | | | | | | |
| (c) | Must the case, after the taking of the protective measure, be transferred of the court's own motion to the court of the Member State with jurisdiction? | | | | | | |

| 4. | If the court of a Member State has no jurisdiction at all, must it dismiss the case as inadmissible or transfer it to the court of the other Member State? |
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( 1 )  OJ L 338, p. 1.

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