
GRP Rainer Lawyers Tax Advisors, Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Hanover, Bremen, Nuremberg, Essen and London grprainer.com/en explain: Particularly in the case of international commercial agreements within the EU, the question of jurisdiction is frequently raised. Thus, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had to address this very question recently regarding jurisdiction in the context of supply chains. In its judgment of 7 February 2013 (Az.: C-543/10), it ruled that in answering this question it was of decisive importance whether a clause to that effect had been approved by all participating parties.