CELEX: 62020CN0073
Language: en
Date: 2020-02-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-73/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 13 February 2020 — ZM in his capacity as liquidator in the insolvency proceedings relating to Oeltrans Befrachtungsgesellschaft mbH v E.A. Frerichs

8.6.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 191/9
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 13 February 2020 — ZM in his capacity as liquidator in the insolvency proceedings relating to Oeltrans Befrachtungsgesellschaft mbH v E.A. Frerichs
      (Case C-73/20)
      (2020/C 191/12)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bundesgerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant in the appeal on a point of law: ZM in his capacity as liquidator in the insolvency proceedings relating to Oeltrans Befrachtungsgesellschaft mbH
      
         Defendant in the appeal on a point of law: E.A. Frerichs
      
         Question referred
      
      Are Article 13 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings (1) and Article 12(1)(b) 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’) (2) to be interpreted as meaning that the law applicable to a contract under the latter regulation also governs the payment made by a third party in performance of a contracting party’s contractual payment obligation?
      
         (1)  OJ 2000 L 160, p. 1.
      
         (2)  OJ 2008 L 177, p. 6.