Press Release: Judgment in Case C-645/11. Land Berlin v Ellen Mirjam Sapir and Others

The regulation on jurisdiction applies to an action brought by a public body which, having sold land previously expropriated by a totalitarian regime, has mistakenly overpaid the successors in title and seeks the partial restitution of that sum.

However, that regulation does not, in the present case, apply to defendants domiciled outside the EU, even where they are sued in a joint action with defendants domiciled in a Member State.