Order — ECLI:EU:C:2002:220
Date: 2002-03-22
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Brussels Convention of 27 September 1968;Judicial cooperation in civil matters;Brussels Convention of 27 September 1968 - Jurisdiction
Concepts: Reference under Article 68 EC;Courts which may request preliminary rulings
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling - inadmissible
Origin: France

Summary of the Order 
1. Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of judgments — Protocol on the 
interpretation by the Court of Justice of the Convention — National courts which may 
request the Court to give a preliminary ruling — French Tribunal de commerce acting 
at first instance — Excluded — Court clearly lacking jurisdiction to give a pre­
liminary ruling on the questions referred to it 
(Protocol of 3 June 1971, Art. 2) 
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SUMMARY — CASE C-24/02 
2. Preliminary rulings — Jurisdiction of the Court — Regulation No 44/2001 on 
jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments — National courts 
which may request the Court to give an interpretation — Courts or tribunals against 
whose decisions there is no judicial remedy under national law 
(Arts 61(c) EC and 68(1) EC; Council Regulation No 44/2001) 
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