CELEX: 62018CA0667
Language: en
Date: 2020-05-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-667/18: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 May 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Grondwettelijk Hof — Belgium) — Orde van Vlaamse Balies, Ordre des barreaux francophones et germanophone v Ministerraad (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Directive 2009/138/EC — Legal expenses insurance — Article 201 — Insured person’s right freely to choose a lawyer — Proceedings — Meaning — Mediation proceedings)

20.7.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 240/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 14 May 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Grondwettelijk Hof — Belgium) — Orde van Vlaamse Balies, Ordre des barreaux francophones et germanophone v Ministerraad
      (Case C-667/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Directive 2009/138/EC - Legal expenses insurance - Article 201 - Insured person’s right freely to choose a lawyer - Proceedings - Meaning - Mediation proceedings)
      (2020/C 240/14)
      Language of the case: Dutch
      
         Referring court
      
      Grondwettelijk Hof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Orde van Vlaamse Balies, Ordre des barreaux francophones et germanophone
      
         Defendant: Ministerraad
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 201(1)(a) 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) must be interpreted as meaning that the term ‘proceedings’ referred to in that provision includes judicial and extrajudicial mediation proceedings in which a court is involved or is capable of being involved, whether when those proceedings are initiated or after they are concluded.
      
         (1)  OJ C 25, 21.1.2019.