Case C-295/13: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 December 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Darmstadt — Germany) — H, acting as liquidator in the insolvency of G.T. GmbH v H.K. (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Jurisdiction of the courts of a Member State in which insolvency proceedings have been opened for an action in respect of insolvency against a defendant domiciled in a non-member State — Action brought against the managing director of a company for reimbursement of payments made after that company has become insolvent or after it has been established that its liabilities exceed its assets)
Date: 2014-12-04
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: claim, enforcement of ruling, financial solvency, head office, indebtedness, judicial cooperation in civil matters in the EU, judicial proceedings, legal domicile








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Official Journal of the European Union


C 46/9





Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 December 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Darmstadt — Germany) — H, acting as liquidator in the insolvency of G.T. GmbH v H.K.
(Case C-295/13) (1)

((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Area of freedom, security and justice - Judicial cooperation in civil matters - Jurisdiction of the courts of a Member State in which insolvency proceedings have been opened for an action in respect of insolvency against a defendant domiciled in a non-member State - Action brought against the managing director of a company for reimbursement of payments made after that company has become insolvent or after it has been established that its liabilities exceed its assets))
(2015/C 046/11)
Language of the case: German

Referring court

Landgericht Darmstadt

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicant: H, acting as liquidator in the insolvency of G.T. GmbH

Defendant: H.K.

Operative part of the judgment







1)


Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings must be interpreted as meaning that the courts of the Member State in the territory of which insolvency proceedings regarding a company’s assets have been opened have jurisdiction, on the basis of that provision, to hear and determine an action, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, brought by the liquidator in the insolvency proceedings against the managing director of that company for reimbursement of payments made after the company became insolvent or after it had been established that the company’s liabilities exceeded its assets.










2)


Article 3(1) of Regulation No 1346/2000 must be interpreted as meaning that the courts of the Member State in the territory of which insolvency proceedings regarding a company’s assets have been opened have jurisdiction to hear and determine an action, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, brought by the liquidator in the insolvency proceedings against the managing director of that company for reimbursement of payments made after the company became insolvent or after it had been established that the company’s liabilities exceeded its assets, where the managing director is domiciled not in another Member State but, as is the situation in the main proceedings, in a contracting party to the Convention on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, signed on 30 October 2007, which was approved on behalf of the Community by Council Decision 2009/430/EC of 27 November 2008.






(1)  OJ C 226, 3.8.2013.