CELEX: 62013CA0322
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-322/13: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 27 March 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Bozen — Italy) — Ulrike Elfriede Grauel Rüffer v Katerina Pokorná (Citizenship of the Union — Principle of non-discrimination — Language rules applicable to civil proceedings)

19.5.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 151/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 27 March 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Bozen — Italy) — Ulrike Elfriede Grauel Rüffer v Katerina Pokorná
   (Case C-322/13) (1)
   
   ((Citizenship of the Union - Principle of non-discrimination - Language rules applicable to civil proceedings))
   2014/C 151/10
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Landesgericht Bozen
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Ulrike Elfriede Grauel Rüffer
   
      Defendant: Katerina Pokorná
   
      Re:
   
   Request for a preliminary ruling — Tribunale di Bolzano/Landesgericht Bozen — Interpretation of Articles 18 and 21 TFEU — Non-discrimination and citizenship of the Union — Language regime applicable to civil proceedings — Derogation for nationals — Extension of that derogation to EU nationals in the same situation as nationals
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Articles 18 TFEU and 21 TFEU must be interpreted as precluding national rules, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, which grant the right to use a language other than the official language of that State in civil proceedings brought before the courts of a Member State which are situated in a specific territorial entity, only to citizens of that State who are domiciled in the same territorial entity.
   
      (1)  OJ C 226, 3.8.2013.