Case T-384/19 OP: Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2025 – Parliament v Axa Assurances Luxembourg and Others (Arbitration clause – Construction all-risk insurance policy – Extension and renovation of the Konrad Adenauer building in Luxembourg – Damage caused by rainwater – Claim for reimbursement of expenses and for payment of compensation – Scope of the insurance – Exclusion clause – Ancillary procedural obligations – Procedure by default in part – Application to set aside)
Date: 2025-09-10
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: Luxembourg, building industry, damages, flood, insurance claim, insurance indemnity, interest, public building








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C/2025/5687


3.11.2025






Judgment of the General Court of 10 September 2025 – Parliament v Axa Assurances Luxembourg and Others


(Case T-384/19 OP)
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(Arbitration clause - ‘Construction all-risk’ insurance policy - Extension and renovation of the Konrad Adenauer building in Luxembourg - Damage caused by rainwater - Claim for reimbursement of expenses and for payment of compensation - Scope of the insurance - Exclusion clause - Ancillary procedural obligations - Procedure by default in part - Application to set aside)
(C/2025/5687)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant in the main proceedings: European Parliament (represented by: E. Paladini and V. Kapsali, acting as Agents)

Defendants in the main proceedings: Axa Assurances Luxembourg SA (Luxembourg, Luxembourg), Bâloise Assurances Luxembourg SA (Luxembourg), La Luxembourgeoise SA (Luxembourg), Nationale-Nederlanden Schadeverzekering Maatschappij NV (The Hague, Netherlands) (represented by: C. Collarini and S. Denu, lawyers)

Re:

By its application under Article 166 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Nationale-Nederlanden Schadeverzekering Maatschappij NV seeks to have set aside points 1 and 3 of the operative part of the judgment of 29 September 2021, Parliament v Axa Assurances Luxembourg and Others (T-384/19, not published, EU:T:2021:630), by which the General Court gave judgment by default in favour of the applicant in the main proceedings, the European Parliament, pursuant to Article 123(3) of the Rules of Procedure and therefore ordered by default Nationale-Nederlanden Schadeverzekering Maatschappij NV to reimburse the sum of EUR 79 653,89 to the applicant in the main proceedings together with statutory interest for late payment relating thereto, from 22 December 2017, for which the rate is the sum of the interest rate applied by the European Central Bank (ECB) to its main refinancing operations and eight percentage points, and to bear the costs of the default proceedings to the extent that those proceedings concerned it.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






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Sets aside points 1 and 3 of the judgment of 29 September 2021, Parliament v Axa Assurances Luxembourg and Others (T

-384

/19, not published, EU:T:2021:630);











2.


Orders the European Parliament to bear its own costs and to pay two thirds of the costs incurred by Nationale-Nederlanden Schadeverzekering Maatschappij NV.






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            OJ C 288, 26.8.2019.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/5687/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)