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Document 62019CN0343

    Case C-343/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Klagenfurt (Austria) lodged on 30 April 2019 — Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Volkswagen AG

    OJ C 230, 8.7.2019, p. 22–23 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

    8.7.2019   

    EN

    Official Journal of the European Union

    C 230/22


    Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landesgericht Klagenfurt (Austria) lodged on 30 April 2019 — Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Volkswagen AG

    (Case C-343/19)

    (2019/C 230/27)

    Language of the case: German

    Referring court

    Landesgericht Klagenfurt

    Parties to the main proceedings

    Applicant: Verein für Konsumenteninformation

    Defendant and respondent: Volkswagen AG

    Question referred

    Is point 2 of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (1) to be interpreted as meaning that, in a situation such as that in the main proceedings, the ‘place where the harmful event occurred’ may be construed as the place in a Member State where the damage occurred, when that damage consists exclusively of financial damage that is the direct result of an unlawful act committed in another Member State?


    (1)  OJ 2012 L 351, p. 1.


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