Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) 4 July 1985

In Case 220/84 REFERENCE to the Court by the Bundesgerichtshof [Federal Court of Justice], under Article 3 of the Protocol of 3 June 1971 on the interpretation by the Court of Justice of the Convention of 27 September 1968 on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, for a preliminary ruling in the case pending before that court between

THE COURT (Second Chamber) composed of: O. Due, President of Chamber, P. Pescatore and K. Bahlmann, Judges, Advocate General: C. O. Lenz Registrar: D. Louterman, Administrator

after considering the observations submitted in accordance with Article 20 of the Protocol on the Statute on the Court of Justice of the European Communities on behalf of AS-Autoteile GmbH, the plaintiff in the main proceedings, by Ernst Jan Rassek, Rechtsanwalt, Karlsruhe, the Government of the United Kingdom, by S. J. Hay, of the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Commission of the European Communities, by its Legal Adviser, Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht, assisted by Silvio Pieri, an Italian civil servant on secondment to the Commission;

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General, delivered at the sitting on 6 June 1985,

gives the following

JUDGMENT

Decision

Costs

1 Language of the Case: German.