CELEX: 62013CN0656
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-656/13: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Nejvyšší soud České republiky (Czech Republic) lodged on 12 December 2013 — L v M, R and K

22.3.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 85/11
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Nejvyšší soud České republiky (Czech Republic) lodged on 12 December 2013 — L v M, R and K
   (Case C-656/13)
   2014/C 85/19
   Language of the case: Czech
   
      Referring court
   
   Nejvyšší soud České republiky
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: L
   
      Other parties to the proceedings: M; R and K
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Must Article 12(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 (1) of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000, (‘the Brussels IIa Regulation’) be interpreted as establishing jurisdiction over proceedings concerning parental responsibility even where no other related proceedings (that is, ‘proceedings other than those referred to in paragraph 1’) are pending?
            
         In the event of an affirmative answer to Question 1:
   
               2.
            
            
               Must Article 12(3) of the Brussels IIa Regulation be interpreted as meaning that acceptance expressly or otherwise in an unequivocal manner includes also the situation in which the party who has not initiated proceedings makes a separate application for the initiation of proceedings in the same case but immediately on doing the first act required of him objects that the court lacks jurisdiction in the proceedings previously started on the application by the other party?
            
         
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 388, p. 1.