CELEX: 62020CN0512
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-512/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Noord-Holland (Netherlands) lodged on 13 October 2020 — P v Swiss International Air Lines AG

21.12.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 443/14
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Rechtbank Noord-Holland (Netherlands) lodged on 13 October 2020 — P v Swiss International Air Lines AG
      (Case C-512/20)
      (2020/C 443/15)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Rechtbank Noord-Holland
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: P
      
         Defendant: Swiss International Air Lines AG
      
         Question referred
      
      Does Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 (1) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights, and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 295/91, having regard to Article 15 of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport of 21 June 1999 (2) and Decisions No 1/2006 (3) and No 1/2017 (4) of the Committee, in the case of directly connecting flights, where, between the departure from an airport situated in the territory of a Member State and the arrival at an airport situated in the territory of a third State there is a planned stopover in Switzerland and a change of aircraft, also apply to the directly connecting flight departing from Switzerland and bound for a third country?
      
         (1)  OJ 2004 L 46, p. 1.
      
         (2)  OJ 2002 L 114, p. 73.
      
         (3)  2006/727/EC: Decision No 1/2006 of the Community/Switzerland Air Transport Committee of 18 October 2006 amending the Annex to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport (OJ 2006 L 298, p. 23).
      
         (4)  Decision No 1/2017 of the Joint European Union/Switzerland Air Transport Committee set up under the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport of 29 November 2017 replacing the Annex to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport (OJ 2017 L 348, p. 46).