CELEX: 62011CA0325
Language: en
Date: 2012-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-325/11: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 19 December 2012 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy w Koszalinie — Poland) — Krystyna Alder, Ewald Alder v Sabina Orłowska, Czesław Orłowski (Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 — Service of documents — Party domiciled in the territory of another Member State — Representative domiciled in national territory — None — Procedural documents placed in the case file — Presumption of knowledge)

16.2.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 46/7
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 19 December 2012 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy w Koszalinie — Poland) — Krystyna Alder, Ewald Alder v Sabina Orłowska, Czesław Orłowski
   (Case C-325/11) (1)
   
   (Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 - Service of documents - Party domiciled in the territory of another Member State - Representative domiciled in national territory - None - Procedural documents placed in the case file - Presumption of knowledge)
   2013/C 46/12
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Referring court
   
   Sąd Rejonowy w Koszalinie
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Krystyna Alder, Ewald Alder
   
      Defendants: Sabina Orłowska, Czesław Orłowski
   
      Re:
   
   Request for a preliminary ruling — Sąd Rejonowy w Koszalinie (Poland) — Interpretation of Article 18 TFEU and of Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents), and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1348/2000 (OJ L 324 of 10 December 2007, p. 79) — National legislation which establishes, for a party who is resident in another Member State and has not appointed a representative resident in national territory, a presumption that that party is aware of procedural documents which have been placed in the case file
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1348/2000 must be interpreted as precluding legislation of a Member State, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which provides that judicial documents addressed to a party whose place of residence or habitual abode is in another Member State are placed in the case file, and deemed to have been effectively served, if that party has failed to appoint a representative who is authorised to accept service and is resident in the first Member State, in which the judicial proceedings are taking place.
   
      (1)  OJ C 269, 10.9.2011.