CELEX: 62011CA0456
Language: en
Date: 2012-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-456/11: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 November 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Bremen — Germany) — Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG, ERGO Versicherung AG, Versicherungskammer Bayern-Versicherungsanstalt des öffentlichen Rechts, Nürnberger Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG, Krones AG v Samskip GmbH (Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 — Articles 32 and 33 — Recognition of judgments — Concept of ‘judgment’ — Effects of a judgment on international jurisdiction — Jurisdiction clause)

12.1.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 9/19
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 15 November 2012 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Bremen — Germany) — Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG, ERGO Versicherung AG, Versicherungskammer Bayern-Versicherungsanstalt des öffentlichen Rechts, Nürnberger Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG, Krones AG v Samskip GmbH
   (Case C-456/11) (1)
   
   (Judicial cooperation in civil matters - Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 - Articles 32 and 33 - Recognition of judgments - Concept of ‘judgment’ - Effects of a judgment on international jurisdiction - Jurisdiction clause)
   2013/C 9/30
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Landgericht Bremen
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicants: Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG, ERGO Versicherung AG, Versicherungskammer Bayern-Versicherungsanstalt des öffentlichen Rechts, Nürnberger Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG, Krones AG
   
      Defendant: Samskip GmbH
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Landgericht Bremen — Interpretation of Articles 31 and 32 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 (OJ 2001 L 12, p. 1) — Recognition of judgments issued in a Member State — Purely procedural judgment (‘Prozeßurteil’) — Judgment concerning the interpretation of a clause allocating jurisdiction, by which the national court declares that it lacks jurisdiction in holding that the court of a third State has jurisdiction — Extent of recognition
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Article 32 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 it also covers a judgment by which the court of a Member State declines jurisdiction on the basis of a jurisdiction clause, irrespective of how that judgment is categorised under the law of another Member State.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Articles 32 and 33 of Regulation No 44/2001 must be interpreted as meaning that the court before which recognition is sought of a judgment by which a court of another Member State has declined jurisdiction on the basis of a jurisdiction clause is bound by the finding — made in the grounds of a judgment, which has since become final, declaring the action inadmissible — regarding the validity of that clause.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 331, 12.11.2011.