Joined Cases C-226/13, C-245/13, C-247/13 and C-578/13: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Wiesbaden — Germany) — Stefan Fahnenbrock (C-226/13), Holger Priestoph (C-245/13), Matteo Antonio Priestoph (C-245/13), Pia Antonia Priestoph (C-245/13), Rudolf Reznicek (C-247/13), Hans-Jürgen Kickler (C-578/13), Walther Wöhlk (C-578/13), Zahnärztekammer Schleswig-Holstein Versorgungswerk (C-578/13) v Hellenic Republic (References for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Service of judicial and extrajudicial documents — Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 — Article 1(1) — Concept of civil or commercial matters — Liability of the State for ‘acta iure imperii’)
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Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 11 June 2015 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Wiesbaden — Germany) — Stefan Fahnenbrock (C-226/13), Holger Priestoph (C-245/13), Matteo Antonio Priestoph (C-245/13), Pia Antonia Priestoph (C-245/13), Rudolf Reznicek (C-247/13), Hans-Jürgen Kickler (C-578/13), Walther Wöhlk (C-578/13), Zahnärztekammer Schleswig-Holstein Versorgungswerk (C-578/13) v Hellenic Republic
(Joined Cases C-226/13, C-245/13, C-247/13 and C-578/13) ( 1 )
‛(References for a preliminary ruling — Judicial cooperation in civil matters — Service of judicial and extrajudicial documents — Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 — Article 1(1) — Concept of civil or commercial matters — Liability of the State for ‘acta iure imperii’)’2015/C 270/02Language of the case: German
Referring court
Landgericht Wiesbaden
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicants: Stefan Fahnenbrock (C-226/13), Holger Priestoph (C-245/13), Matteo Antonio Priestoph (C-245/13), Pia Antonia Priestoph (C-245/13), Rudolf Reznicek (C-247/13), Hans-Jürgen Kickler (C-578/13), Walther Wöhlk (C-578/13), Zahnärztekammer Schleswig-Holstein Versorgungswerk (C-578/13)
Defendant: Hellenic Republic
Operative part of the judgment
Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1393/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 November 2007 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents), and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1348/2000. must be interpreted as meaning that legal actions for compensation for disturbance of ownership and property rights, contractual performance and damages, such as those at issue in the main proceedings, brought by private persons who are holders of government bonds against the issuing State, fall within the scope of that regulation in so far as it does not appear that they are manifestly outside the concept of civil or commercial matters.
( 1 ) OJ C 215, 27.7.2013.
OJ C 24, 25.1.2014.
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