CELEX: 62021CN0291
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-291/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Liège (Belgium) lodged on 7 May 2021 — Starkinvest SRL

12.7.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 278/35
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de première instance de Liège (Belgium) lodged on 7 May 2021 — Starkinvest SRL
      (Case C-291/21)
      (2021/C 278/49)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunal de première instance de Liège
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Starkinvest SRL
      
         Questions referred
      
      
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                  Does a judgment which has been served, ordering a party to make a penalty payment in the event of breach of a prohibitory order, constitute a decision requiring the debtor to pay the creditor’s claim within the meaning of Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) No 655/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order procedure? (1)
                  
               
            
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                  Does a judgment ordering a party to make a penalty payment, although enforceable in the country of origin, fall within the meaning of ‘judgment’ in Article 4 of Regulation No 655/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order where there has been no final determination of the amount in accordance with Article 55 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/12 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters? (2)
                  
               
            
         (1)  Regulation (EU) No 655/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order procedure to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters (OJ 2014 L 189, p. 59).
      
         (2)  OJ 2012 L 351, p. 1.