Order of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 March 2002 in Case C-24/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de Commerce, Marseille) Marseille Fret SA v Seatrano Shipping Company Ltd (Brussels Convention — Protocol concerning the interpretation by the Court of Justice of the Convention — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — National courts which may request the Court of Justice to give preliminary rulings — Manifest lack of jurisdiction of the Court)
Date: 2002-09-14
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU national, civil law, commercial law, interpretation of the law, jurisdiction, mutual recognition principle

14.9.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 219/1

I

(Information)

COURT OF JUSTICE

COURT OF JUSTICE

ORDER OF THE COURT

(First Chamber)

of 22 March 2002

in Case C-24/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Tribunal de Commerce, Marseille) Marseille Fret SA v
Seatrano Shipping Company Ltd (1)

(Brussels Convention — Protocol concerning the interpret-
ation by the Court of Justice of the Convention — Regulation
(EC) No 44/2001 — National courts which may request the
Court of Justice to give preliminary rulings — Manifest lack
of jurisdiction of the Court)

(2002/C 219/01)

(Language of the case: French)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
in the European Court Reports)

In Case C-24/02: reference to the Court from the Tribunal de
Commerce, Marseille (France), for a preliminary ruling in the
proceedings pending before that court between Marseille
Fret SA and Seatrano Shipping Company Ltd — on the
interpretation of the Brussels Convention of 27 September
1968 on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in
civil and commercial matters (OJ 1972 L 299, p. 32), as
amended by the Convention of Accession of 9 October 1978
of the Kingdom of Denmark, of Ireland and of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (OJ 1978
L 304, p. 1 — amended text — p. 77), the Convention of
25 October 1982 on the accession of the Hellenic Republic
(OJ 1982 L 388, p. 1), the Convention of 26 May 1989 on the
accession of
the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese
Republic (OJ 1989 L 285, p. 1) and the Convention of
29 November 1996 on the accession of the Republic of
Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden
(OJ 1997 C 15, p. 1) and of Council Regulation (EC)

No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and
the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and
commercial matters (OJ 2001 L 12, p. 1) — the Court (First
Chamber), composed of: P. Jann, President of the Chamber,
M. Wathelet and A. Rosas, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate
General; R. Grass, Administrator, for the Registrar, has made
an order the operative part of which is as follows:

The Court of Justice of the European Communities manifestly has no
jurisdiction to reply to the question referred to it by the Tribunal de
Commerce, Marseille, by judgment of 22 January 2002.

(1) OJ C 97, 2002.

Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Østre Landsret
by order of that Court of 4 June 2002 in the case of
REMEDAN af 1985 ApS against Skatteministeriet

(Case C-226/02)

(2002/C 219/02)

Reference has been made to the Court of
Justice of the
European Communities by order of the Østre Landsret (Eastern
Regional Court) (Denmark) of 4 June 2002, received at the
Court Registry on 17 June 2002, for a preliminary ruling in
the case of REMEDAN af 1985 ApS against Skatteministeriet
(Danish Ministry of Fiscal Affairs) on the following question: