CELEX: 62018CA0803
Language: en
Date: 2020-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-803/18: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 27 February 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas — Lithuania) — AAS ‘Balta’ v UAB ‘Grifs AG’ (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 — Article 15, point 5 and Article 16, point 5 — Insurance of ‘large risks’ — Jurisdiction clause agreed upon by the policyholder and the insurer — Whether that clause may be relied on against the insured person)

27.4.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 137/21
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 27 February 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas — Lithuania) — AAS ‘Balta’ v UAB ‘Grifs AG’
      (Case C-803/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Judicial cooperation in civil matters - Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 - Article 15, point 5 and Article 16, point 5 - Insurance of ‘large risks’ - Jurisdiction clause agreed upon by the policyholder and the insurer - Whether that clause may be relied on against the insured person)
      (2020/C 137/27)
      Language of the case: Lithuanian
      
         Referring court
      
      Lietuvos Aukščiausiasis Teismas
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: AAS ‘Balta’
      
         Defendant: UAB ‘Grifs AG’
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 15, point 5, and Article 16, point 5, of Regulation No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters must be interpreted as meaning that the jurisdiction clause in an insurance contract covering a ‘large risk’, within the meaning of the latter provision, concluded by the policyholder and the insurer, may not be relied on against the party insured under that contract, who is not an insurance professional, who has not consented to that clause and who is domiciled in a Member State other than that in which the policyholder and the insurer are domiciled.
      
         (1)  OJ C 82, 4.3.2019.