Opinion of Advocate General Darmon delivered on 22 March 1994

1 Original language: French.

2 As amended by the Accession Convention of 9 October 1978 (OJ 1978 L 304, p. 1).

3 P. 2 of his observations.

4 OJ 1979 C 59, p. 1.

5 P. 35.

6 Ibid.

7 Bellet, P.: L'élaboration d'une convention sur la reconnaissance des jugements dans le cadre du Marché commun, Journal de droit international, 1965, p. 833, at p. 857.

8 Judgment in Case 73/77 Sanders v van der Putte [1977] ECR 2383.

9 Paragraph 17.

10 Paragraph 18.

11 Judgments in Case 241/83 Rosler v Rottwinkel [1985] ECR 99, Case 158/87 Scherrens v Maenhout and Others [1988] ECR 3791, and Case C-280/90 Hacker [1992] ECR I-1111.

12 Paragraph 16.

13 Judgment in Hacker, cited above (note 10), paragraph 14.

14 Paragraph 25.

15 Journal de droit international, 1986, p. 440.

16 Paragraph 27.

17 Paragraph 14.

18 Sanders, cited above (note 7), p. 2393.

19 La convention de Bruxelles du 27 septembre 1968 — Compétence judiciaire et effets des jugements dans la CEE, Jupiter, 1985.

20 Paragraph 149, p. 86.

21 Judgment in Case C-115/88 [1990] ECR I-27. Following that judgment, the national court made a fresh reference to the Court of Justice to ascertain whether an action paulienne under Article 1167 of the French Civil Code could come under Articles 5(3), 16(5), and 24 of the Convention (judgment in Case C-261/90 Reichert II [1992] ECR I-2149). The latter decision is of no relevance for the present proceedings.

22 Case C-294/92, judgment of 17 May 1994 [1994] ECR I-1717, I-1719.

23 Judgment in Case 288/82 Duijnstee v Coderbauer [1983] ECR 3663.

24 Paragraph 8.

25 Paragraph 11.

26 OJ 1979 C 59, p. 71.

27 Paragraph 166(a), p. 120.

28 Paragraph 170(a), pp. 121 and 122.

29 See Mazeaud-Chabas: Leçons de droit civil. Introduction à l'étude du droit, p. 213 et seq., Vol. I, part 1, 8th edition by Chabas, Éditions Montchrestien, 1986.

30 The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Butter-worths, 1983.

31 P. 79.

32 Paragraph 145, p. 84.

33 Journal de droit international, 1990, p. 503, at p. 504 in fine.