CELEX: 62019CA0025
Language: en
Date: 2020-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-25/19: Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 27 February 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Poznaniu — Poland) — Corporis sp. z o.o. v Gefion Insurance A/S (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2009/138/EC — Representation of a non-life insurance undertaking — Representative permanently resident in national territory — Service of documents — Receipt of the document initiating proceedings — Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 — Non-applicability)

27.4.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 137/22
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 27 February 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Okręgowy w Poznaniu — Poland) — Corporis sp. z o.o. v Gefion Insurance A/S
      (Case C-25/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 2009/138/EC - Representation of a non-life insurance undertaking - Representative permanently resident in national territory - Service of documents - Receipt of the document initiating proceedings - Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 - Non-applicability)
      (2020/C 137/29)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Referring court
      
      Sąd Okręgowy w Poznaniu
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Corporis sp. z o.o.
      
         Defendant: Gefion Insurance A/S
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 152(1) of Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II), read in conjunction with Article 151 of that directive and recital 8 of Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents), and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1348/2000, must be interpreted as meaning that the appointment by a non-life insurance undertaking of a representative in the host Member State also includes the authorisation for that representative to receive a document initiating court proceedings for damages in respect of a road traffic accident.
      
         (1)  OJ C 164, 13.5.2019.