8.2.2021 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 44/25 |
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesarbeitsgericht (Germany) lodged on 16 November 2020 — ROI Land Investments Ltd. v FD
(Case C-604/20)
(2021/C 44/31)
Language of the case: German
Referring court
Bundesarbeitsgericht
Parties to the main proceedings
Defendant, respondent in first appeal and appellant in the appeal on a point of law: ROI Land Investments Ltd.
Applicant, appellant in first appeal and respondent in the appeal on a point of law: FD
Questions referred
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Is Article 6(1) read in conjunction with Article 21(2) and Article 21(1)(b) 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 (‘Brussels I Regulation’) (1) to be interpreted as meaning that an employee can sue a legal person — which is not his employer and which is not domiciled in a Member State within the meaning of Article 63(1) of the Brussels I Regulation but which, by virtue of a letter of comfort, is directly liable to the employee for claims arising from an individual contract of employment with a third party — in the courts for the place where or from where the employee habitually carries out his work in the employment relationship with the third party or in the courts for the last place where he did so, if the contract of employment with the third party would not have come into being in the absence of the letter of comfort? |
2. |
Is Article 6(1) of the Brussels I Regulation to be interpreted as meaning that the reservation in respect of Article 21(2) of the Brussels I Regulation precludes the application of a rule of jurisdiction existing under the national law of the Member State which allows an employee to sue a legal person, which, in circumstances such as those described in the first question, is directly liable to him for claims arising from an individual contract of employment with a third party, as the ‘successor in title’ of the employer in the courts for the place where the employee habitually carries out his work, if no such jurisdiction exists under Article 21(2) read in conjunction with Article 21(1)(b)(i) of the Brussels I Regulation? |
3. |
If the first question is answered in the negative and the second question in the affirmative:
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4. |
If, in answer to the above questions, the referring court is deemed to have international jurisdiction to rule on the dispute:
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