CELEX: 62022CN0021
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-21/22: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Opolu (Poland) lodged on 7 January 2022 — OP

16.5.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 198/20
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Opolu (Poland) lodged on 7 January 2022 — OP
      (Case C-21/22)
      (2022/C 198/29)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Referring court
      
      Sąd Okręgowy w Opolu
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: OP
      
         Other party to the proceedings: Notariusz Justyna Gawlica
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Must Article 22 [of Regulation No 650/2012] be interpreted as meaning that a person who is not a citizen of the European Union is entitled to choose the law of his or her native country as the law governing all matters relating to succession? (1)
                  
               
            
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                  Must Article 75, in conjunction with Article 22, of Regulation No 650/2012 be interpreted as meaning that, in the case where a bilateral agreement between a Member State and a third country does not govern the choice of law applicable to a case involving succession but indicates the law applicable to that case involving succession, a national of that third country residing in a Member State bound by that bilateral agreement may make a choice of law?
               
            
         (1)  OJ 2012 L 201, p. 107.