CELEX: 62016CA0498
Language: en
Date: 2018-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Case C-498/16: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 25 January 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof) — Maximilian Schrems v Facebook Ireland Limited (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Articles 15 and 16 — Jurisdiction in respect of consumer contracts — Definition of ‘consumer’ — Assignment between consumers of claims against the same trader or professional)

19.3.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 25 January 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof) — Maximilian Schrems v Facebook Ireland Limited
   (Case C-498/16) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Area of freedom, security and justice - Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 - Articles 15 and 16 - Jurisdiction in respect of consumer contracts - Definition of ‘consumer’ - Assignment between consumers of claims against the same trader or professional))
   (2018/C 104/09)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Oberster Gerichtshof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Maximilian Schrems
   
      Defendant: Facebook Ireland Limited
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Article 15 of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters must be interpreted as meaning that the activities of publishing books, lecturing, operating websites, fundraising and being assigned the claims of numerous consumers for the purpose of their enforcement do not entail the loss of a private Facebook account user’s status as a ‘consumer’ within the meaning of that article.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Article 16(1) of Regulation No 44/2001 must be interpreted as meaning that it does not apply to the proceedings brought by a consumer for the purpose of asserting, in the courts of the place where he is domiciled, not only his own claims, but also claims assigned by other consumers domiciled in the same Member State, in other Member States or in non-member countries.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 441, 28.11.2016.