CELEX: 62021CN0018
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-18/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 12 January 2021 — Uniqa Versicherungen AG v VU

12.4.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 128/13
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 12 January 2021 — Uniqa Versicherungen AG v VU
      (Case C-18/21)
      (2021/C 128/19)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Oberster Gerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Uniqa Versicherungen AG
      
         Defendant: VU
      
         Question referred
      
      Are Articles 20 and 26 of Regulation (EC) No 1896/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 creating a European order for payment procedure (1) to be interpreted as meaning that those provisions preclude an interruption of the 30-day period for lodging a statement of opposition to a European order for payment, as provided for in Article 16(2) of that regulation, by Paragraph 1(1) of the Austrian Bundesgesetz betreffend Begleitmaßnahmen zu COVID-19 in der Justiz (Federal Law on accompanying measures for COVID-19 in the administration of justice), pursuant to which all procedural periods in proceedings in civil cases for which the event triggering the period occurs after 21 March 2020 or which have not yet expired by that date are to be interrupted until the end of 30 April 2020 and are to begin to run anew from 1 May 2020?
      
         (1)  OJ 2006 L 399, p. 1.