CELEX: 62019CN0343
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Case C-343/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Klagenfurt (Austria) lodged on 30 April 2019 — Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Volkswagen AG

8.7.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 230/22
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Klagenfurt (Austria) lodged on 30 April 2019 — Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Volkswagen AG
      (Case C-343/19)
      (2019/C 230/27)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Landesgericht Klagenfurt
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Verein für Konsumenteninformation
      
         Defendant and respondent: Volkswagen AG
      
         Question referred
      
      Is point 2 of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (1) to be interpreted as meaning that, in a situation such as that in the main proceedings, the ‘place where the harmful event occurred’ may be construed as the place in a Member State where the damage occurred, when that damage consists exclusively of financial damage that is the direct result of an unlawful act committed in another Member State?
      
         (1)  OJ 2012 L 351, p. 1.