CELEX: 62017CA0088
Language: en
Date: 2018-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-88/17: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 July 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein oikeus — Finland) — Zurich Insurance PLC, Metso Minerals Oy v Abnormal Load Services (International) Limited (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Cooperation in civil and commercial matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Jurisdiction — Second indent of Article 5(1)(b) — Jurisdiction of the courts for the place of performance of the obligation — Place of provision of services — Contract for the carriage of goods between two Member States — Route consisting of several stages and involving a number of means of transport)

10.9.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 319/8
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 11 July 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein oikeus — Finland) — Zurich Insurance PLC, Metso Minerals Oy v Abnormal Load Services (International) Limited
      (Case C-88/17) (1)
      
      ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Cooperation in civil and commercial matters - Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 - Jurisdiction - Second indent of Article 5(1)(b) - Jurisdiction of the courts for the place of performance of the obligation - Place of provision of services - Contract for the carriage of goods between two Member States - Route consisting of several stages and involving a number of means of transport))
      (2018/C 319/09)
      Language of the case: Finnish
      
         Referring court
      
      Korkein oikeus
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Zurich Insurance PLC, Metso Minerals Oy
      
         Defendant: Abnormal Load Services (International) Limited
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The second indent of Article 5(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters must be interpreted as meaning that, in the context of a contract for the carriage of goods between Member States in several stages, with stops, and by a number of means of transport, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, both the place of dispatch and the place of delivery of the goods constitute places where transport services are provided, for the purposes of that indent.
      
         (1)  OJ C 112, 10.4.2017.