CELEX: 62009CN0208
Language: en
Date: 2009-06-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-208/09: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 10 June 2009 — Ilonka Sayn-Wittgenstein

15.8.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 193/12
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 10 June 2009 — Ilonka Sayn-Wittgenstein
   (Case C-208/09)
   2009/C 193/15
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Verwaltungsgerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Ilonka Sayn-Wittgenstein
   
      Defendant: Landeshauptmann von Wien
   
      Question referred
   
   Does Article 18 EC preclude legislation pursuant to which the competent authorities of a Member State refuse to recognise that part of the surname of a (grown up) adopted child, determined in another Member State, which contains a title which is inadmissible in the former Member State, including under constitutional law?