CELEX: 62011CN0170
Language: en
Date: 2011-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-170/11: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) lodged on 7 April 2011 — Maurice Robert Josse Marie Ghislain Lippens and Others v Hendrikus Cornelis Kortekaas and Others, other party: Ageas NV, previously Fortis N.V

18.6.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 179/12
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Netherlands) lodged on 7 April 2011 — Maurice Robert Josse Marie Ghislain Lippens and Others v Hendrikus Cornelis Kortekaas and Others, other party: Ageas NV, previously Fortis N.V
   (Case C-170/11)
   2011/C 179/22
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Hoge Raad der Nederlanden
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   Applicants: 
   
                
            
            
               Maurice Robert Josse Marie Ghislain Lippens
            
         
                
            
            
               Gilbert Georges Henri Mittler
            
         
                
            
            
               Jean Paul François Caroline Votron
            
         Defendants: 
   
                
            
            
               Hendrikus Cornelis Kortekaas
            
         
                
            
            
               Kortekaas Entertainment Marketing B.V.
            
         
                
            
            
               Kortekaas Pensioen B.V.
            
         
                
            
            
               Dirk Robbard De Kat
            
         
                
            
            
               Johannes Hendrikus Visch
            
         
                
            
            
               Euphemia Joanna Bökkerink
            
         
                
            
            
               Laminco Gld N-A
            
         Other party: Ageas NV, previously Fortis N.V
   
      Question referred
   
   Must the EC Evidence Regulation, (1) in particular Article 1(1) thereof, be interpreted as meaning that a judge wishing to hear a witness who resides in another Member State must always, for that form of the taking of evidence, use the methods put in place by the EC Evidence Regulation, or does he have the power to use the methods provided by his own national procedural law such as summoning the witness to appear before him?
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001 of 28 May 2001 on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters (OJ 2001 L 174, p.1).