CELEX: 62020CN0595
Language: en
Date: 2020-11-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-595/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 13 November 2020 — UE v ShareWood Switzerland AG and VF

1.2.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 35/33
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 13 November 2020 — UE v ShareWood Switzerland AG and VF
      (Case C-595/20)
      (2021/C 35/46)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Oberster Gerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: UE
      
         Respondents: ShareWood Switzerland AG, VF
      
         Question referred
      
      Is Article 6(4)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I) (1) to be interpreted as meaning that a contract for the purchase of teak and balsa trees between an undertaking and a consumer, which is intended to confer ownership of the trees, which are then managed, harvested and sold for profit, and which includes for that purpose a lease agreement and a service agreement, is to be regarded as ‘a contract relating to a right in rem in immovable property or a tenancy of immovable property’ within the meaning of that provision?
      
         (1)  OJ 2008 L 177, p. 6.