CELEX: 62019CA0729
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-729/19: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland — United Kingdom) — TKF v Department of Justice for Northern Ireland (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Recognition and enforcement of decisions in matters relating to maintenance obligations — Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 — Temporal scope — Article 75 — Decisions given by a court of a Member State prior to accession to the European Union)

7.6.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 217/9
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland — United Kingdom) — TKF v Department of Justice for Northern Ireland
      (Case C-729/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Judicial cooperation in civil matters - Recognition and enforcement of decisions in matters relating to maintenance obligations - Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 - Temporal scope - Article 75 - Decisions given by a court of a Member State prior to accession to the European Union)
      (2021/C 217/11)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Referring court
      
      Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: TKF
      
         Respondent: Department of Justice for Northern Ireland
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Article 75(2)(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 of 18 December 2008 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and cooperation in matters relating to maintenance obligations must be interpreted as applying only to decisions given by national courts in States which were already members of the European Union on the date of adoption of those decisions.
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Regulation No 4/2009 must be interpreted as meaning that no provision of that regulation enables decisions in matters relating to maintenance obligations, given in a State before its accession to the European Union and before the date of application of that regulation, to be recognised and enforced, after that State’s accession to the European Union, in another Member State.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 423, 16.12.2019.