CELEX: 62017CN0250
Language: en
Date: 2017-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-250/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (Portugal) lodged on 12 May 2017 — Virgílio Tarragó da Silveira v Massa Insolvente da Espírito Santo Financial Group, SA

24.7.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 239/31
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (Portugal) lodged on 12 May 2017 — Virgílio Tarragó da Silveira v Massa Insolvente da Espírito Santo Financial Group, SA
   (Case C-250/17)
   (2017/C 239/38)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Referring court
   
   Supremo Tribunal de Justiça
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Virgílio Tarragó da Silveira
   
      Defendant: Massa Insolvente da Espírito Santo Financial Group, SA
   
      Question referred
   
   Must the rule in Article 15 of Regulation No 1346/2000 (1) of 29 May 2000 be interpreted to the effect that its scope includes a lawsuit pending before a Member State seeking an order that a debtor pay a monetary sum due under a service contract and pay monetary damages for failure to comply with that obligation, bearing in mind that: (i) the debtor was declared bankrupt in proceedings commenced in a court in another Member State; and (ii) the declaration of insolvency applies to all of the debtor’s assets?
   
      (1)  Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings (OJ 2000 L 160, p. 1).