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Official Journal of the European Union

C 2/24

(Case C-639/21)

(2022/C 2/30)

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant: PB

Respondents: Geos SAS, Geos International Consulting Limited

Questions referred

—Are Article 4(1) and Article 20(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (1) to be interpreted as meaning that, where it is claimed that a company domiciled in a Member State, and being sued by an employee before the courts of that State, is the joint employer of that employee, who was engaged by another company, that court is not required to assess at the outset whether the employee is jointly employed by those two companies in order to determine whether it has jurisdiction to rule on the claims made against them?

—Are those articles to be interpreted as meaning that, in such a case, the autonomy of the special rules of jurisdiction over individual contracts of employment does not preclude the application of the general rule that jurisdiction lies with the courts of the Member State in which the defendant is domiciled, set out in Article 4(1) of Regulation No 1215/2012?

Language of the case: French.

(1) OJ 2012 L 351, p. 1.

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(2022/C 2/30)