CELEX: 62014CA0605
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-605/14: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 17 December 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein oikeus — Finland) — Virpi Komu, Hanna Ruotsalainen, Ritva Komu v Pekka Komu, Jelena Komu (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Scope — Exclusive jurisdiction — Article 22(1) — Proceedings concerning rights in rem in immovable property — Concept — Action to terminate, by way of sale, the co-ownership in undivided shares of immovable property)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 68/18
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 17 December 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein oikeus — Finland) — Virpi Komu, Hanna Ruotsalainen, Ritva Komu v Pekka Komu, Jelena Komu
   (Case C-605/14) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 - Scope - Exclusive jurisdiction - Article 22(1) - Proceedings concerning rights in rem in immovable property - Concept - Action to terminate, by way of sale, the co-ownership in undivided shares of immovable property))
   (2016/C 068/22)
   Language of the case: Finnish
   
      Referring court
   
   Korkein oikeus
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Virpi Komu, Hanna Ruotsalainen, Ritva Komu
   
      Defendants: Pekka Komu, Jelena Komu
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The first paragraph of Article 22(1) 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 an action for the termination of co-ownership in undivided shares of immovable property by way of sale, by an appointed agent, falls within the category of proceedings ‘which have as their object rights in rem in immovable property’ within the meaning of that provision.
   
      (1)  OJ C 81, 9.3.2015.