CELEX: 62015CN0541
Language: en
Date: 2015-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-541/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Wuppertal (Germany) lodged on 16 October 2015 — Mircea Florian Freitag

8.2.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 48/9
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Wuppertal (Germany) lodged on 16 October 2015 — Mircea Florian Freitag
   (Case C-541/15)
   (2016/C 048/15)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Amtsgericht Wuppertal
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Mircea Florian Freitag
   
      Other parties: Angela Freitag, Vica Pavel, Stadt Wuppertal, Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Wuppertal
   
      Question referred
   
   Are Articles 18 TFEU and 21 TFEU to be interpreted as meaning that the authorities of a Member State are obliged to recognise the change of name of a national of that State if that person is at the same time a national of another Member State and has, in that other Member State, by means of a change of name not associated with a change in family-law status, (re-) acquired his original family name received at the time of birth, even though the acquisition of that name did not take place during the habitual residence of that national in that other Member State and was carried out at his own request?