CELEX: 62016CN0649
Language: en
Date: 2016-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-649/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 19 December 2016 — Peter Valach and Others v Waldviertler Sparkasse Bank AG and Others

3.4.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/27
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 19 December 2016 — Peter Valach and Others v Waldviertler Sparkasse Bank AG and Others
   (Case C-649/16)
   (2017/C 104/40)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Oberster Gerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Peter Valach, Alena Valachová, Europa SC ZV II a.s., Europa SC LV a.s., VAV Parking a.s., Europa SC BB a.s., Byty A s.r.o.
   
      Defendants: Waldviertler Sparkasse Bank AG, Československá obchodná banka a.s., City of Banská Bystrica
   
      Question referred
   
   Is Article 1(2)(b) 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 an action brought by the holders of shares in an insolvent company — as is the case of the first and second applicants — and by project companies in a business relationship with the insolvent company — as is the case of the third to seventh applicants — which is founded on a claim in tort for damages against members of a creditors’ committee in respect of voting impropriety regarding a restructuring plan in connection with insolvency proceedings concerns insolvency within the meaning of Article 1(2)(b) of Regulation No 1215/2012 and is for that reason excluded from the scope ratione materiae of that regulation?
   
      (1)  OJ 2012 L 351, p. 1.