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Document 62020CN0595

Case C-595/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 13 November 2020 — UE v ShareWood Switzerland AG and VF

OJ C 35, 1.2.2021, p. 33–34 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

1.2.2021   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 35/33


Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 13 November 2020 — UE v ShareWood Switzerland AG and VF

(Case C-595/20)

(2021/C 35/46)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Oberster Gerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant: UE

Respondents: ShareWood Switzerland AG, VF

Question referred

Is Article 6(4)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I) (1) to be interpreted as meaning that a contract for the purchase of teak and balsa trees between an undertaking and a consumer, which is intended to confer ownership of the trees, which are then managed, harvested and sold for profit, and which includes for that purpose a lease agreement and a service agreement, is to be regarded as ‘a contract relating to a right in rem in immovable property or a tenancy of immovable property’ within the meaning of that provision?


(1)  OJ 2008 L 177, p. 6.


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