CELEX: 62019CA0800
Language: en
Date: 2021-06-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-800/19: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie — Poland) — Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG v SM (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 — Jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters — Article 7(2) — Special jurisdiction in matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict — Place where the harmful event occurred or may occur — Person claiming infringement of his personality rights resulting from the publication of an article online — Place in which the damage occurred — Centre of the interests of that person)

2.8.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 310/5
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 17 June 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie — Poland) — Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG v SM
      (Case C-800/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Judicial cooperation in civil matters - Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 - Jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters - Article 7(2) - Special jurisdiction in matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict - Place where the harmful event occurred or may occur - Person claiming infringement of his personality rights resulting from the publication of an article online - Place in which the damage occurred - Centre of the interests of that person)
      (2021/C 310/04)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Referring court
      
      Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG
      
         Defendant: SM
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 7(2) 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 must be interpreted as meaning that the courts of the place in which the centre of interests of a person claiming that his or her personality rights have been infringed by content published online on a website is situated have jurisdiction to hear, in respect of the entirety of the alleged damage, an action for damages brought by that person only if that content contains objective and verifiable elements which make it possible to identify, directly or indirectly, that person as an individual.
      
         (1)  OJ C 27, 27.1.2020.