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2015-1 Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance 1 (2015)

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  ZReports of Cases




                                      Case C-498/14 PPU

                                      David Bradbrooke
                                               v
                                     Anna Aleksandrowicz


                                (Request for a preliminary ruling
                                from the cour d'appel de Bruxelles)


 (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Urgent preliminary ruling procedure - judicial cooperation in
 civil matters - jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the
      matters of parental responsibility - Child abduction - Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 -
                                      Article 11(7) and (8))


               Summary - judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber), 9 January 2015

1.  Questions referred for a preliminary ruling- Urgent preliminary ruling procedure - Conditions -
    Separation and estrangement of a young child from his father - Expeditious answer from the
    Court to reduce the impact on their future relationship

    (Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 107 and 108; Council Regulation No 2201/2003)

2.  Judicial cooperation in civil matters - jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement of decisions in
    matrimonial matters and in the matters of parental responsibility - Regulation No 2201/2003 -
    Allocation by a Member State to a specialised court of jurisdiction to examine questions of return
    or custody with respect to a child - Whether permissible

    (Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 24; Council Regulation No 2201/2003,
    Art. 11(6) to (8))

1. As regards a reference for a preliminary ruling concerning the interpretation of Regulation
No 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in
matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation No 1347/2000,
the Court may decide that it should be dealt with under the urgent procedure provided for in
Article 107 of its Rules of Procedure, where the case concerns a three-year-old child who has been
separated from his father for more than a year. The continuation of the separation, an additional
feature of which is the significant distance between where the father resides and where the child is
living, could seriously harm the child's future relationship with his father.

                                                                            (see paras 36, 38, 39)

2. Article 11(7) and (8) of Regulation No 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and
enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing
Regulation No 1347/2000, must be interpreted as not precluding, as a general rule, a Member State
from allocating to a specialised court the jurisdiction to examine questions of return or custody with


ECL:EU:C:2015:3

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