Examples of Brussels Regulation in a sentence
Subject to the Brussels Regulation and the circumstances of a particular claim, holders residing outside of the UK may be able to bring a claim before their local court and have that judgment enforced in the UK.
A similar requirement can be found in Article 15 of Regulation 44/2001, known as the Brussels Regulation, which deals with contract disputes involving more than one country.
In addition, with respect to jurisdiction, you may choose either the courts of the country (e.g., the United Kingdom, the French Republic, or the Federal Republic of Germany) in which you acquired and use the Program, or in the alternative the courts of England and Wales or other court as applicable under the Brussels Regulation EC 44/2001.
Whilst Article 1 of the UPCA and Article 71a of the Brussels Regulation designate the UPC as a “court common to a number of Member States”, we do not consider that such secondary legislation is capable of converting the UPC’s fundamental status as an international court into that of a court which is part of the national legal order.
Exclusive jurisdiction is also regularly claimed in other situations, such as those identified in Article 22 of the Brussels Regulation.
While the UK’s accession to the Hague Convention preserves the status quo between the UK and the EU in many respects as to matters of jurisdiction and enforcement, the scope of the Hague Convention is limited to contracts with exclusive jurisdiction clauses and there is no assurance that such judgments will be recognised on exactly the same terms and in the same conditions as under the Recast Brussels Regulation.
This is reflected in the Brussels Regulation,92 which does not directly apply to arbitration agreements93 but requires that in deciding upon choice of law, the courts cannot deprive consumers of the protections afforded to them by the mandatory rules of their country of their habitual residence.94 Article 16 of the Brussels Regulation provides that any claims brought against consumers must be brought in the country of the consumer’s domicile.
As a result, persons enforcing a judgment obtained before English courts can no longer benefit from the recognition of such judgment in EU courts (including the Netherlands and Spain) under the Recast Brussels Regulation or the Lugano Convention.
The most relevant instrument for the enforcement of foreign judgments in commercial and civil matters is the Brussels Regulation (EU-Regulation 1215/2012), which governs the enforcement of judgments of other EU member states.
The joint declaration concerning Article 17.1 (c) Brussels Regulation is cited in detail in the Rome I Regulation, especially in respect of the need for the entrepreneur’s marketing activity to cause the contract to be concluded.