CELEX: 62019CN0540
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-540/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 16 July 2019 — WV v Landkreis Harburg

14.10.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 348/6
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 16 July 2019 — WV v Landkreis Harburg
      (Case C-540/19)
      (2019/C 348/08)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Bundesgerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Defendant and appellant: WV
      
         Applicant and respondent: Landkreis Harburg
      
         Question referred
      
      Can a public body which has provided a maintenance creditor with social assistance benefits in accordance with provisions of public law invoke the place of jurisdiction at the place of habitual residence of the maintenance creditor under Article 3(b) of the European Maintenance Regulation (1) in the case where it asserts the maintenance creditor’s maintenance claim under civil law, transferred to it on the basis of the granting of social assistance by way of statutory subrogation, against the maintenance debtor by way of recourse?
      
         (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 of 18 December 2008 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and cooperation in matters relating to maintenance obligations (OJ 2009 L 7, p. 1).