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by Marco Sposini
Laywer, Milan Bar Association
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The Court of Justice on Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) No 655/2014
21 May 2026
The Court of Justice of the European Union, by judgment ECLI:EU:C:2026:415, dated 21 May 2026, in Case C-198/24 – in proceedings between TQ, a natural person residing in Austria, and Mr Green Limited, an operator of online games of chance established in Malta, concerning an application for a European Account Preservation Order in respect of that operator – ruled that Article 7(1) of Regulation (EU) No 655/2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order procedure to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters must be interpreted as meaning that a national court before which an application for a European Account Preservation Order is brought may take into account, in order to establish whether there is an urgent need to adopt that order, first, conduct of the debtor which occurred a number of years before that application was lodged and, second, the existence, in the Member State where the debtor is established, of a law capable of impeding the enforcement of the claim concerned.
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