21.4.2012   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 118/19


Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) lodged on 20 February 2012 — Landsbanki Islands HF v Kepler Capital Markets SA, Frédéric Giraux

(Case C-85/12)

2012/C 118/30

Language of the case: French

Referring court

Cour de cassation

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Landsbanki Islands HF

Defendants: Kepler Capital Markets SA, Frédéric Giraux

Questions referred

1.

Must Articles 3 and 9 of Directive 2001/24/EC on the reorganisation and winding up of credit institutions (1) be interpreted as meaning that reorganisation or winding-up measures in regard to a financial establishment, such as those under Icelandic Law No 44/2009 of 15 April 2009, are to be regarded as measures adopted by a administrative or judicial authority for the purposes of those articles?

2.

Must Article 32 of Directive 2001/24/EC be interpreted as precluding a national provision, such as Article 98 of the Icelandic law of 20 December 2002, which prohibited or suspended any legal action against a financial establishment as from the entry into force of a moratorium, from having effect in regard to interim protective measures adopted in another Member State prior to the declaration of the moratorium?


(1)  Directive 2001/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 April 2001 on the reorganisation and winding up of credit institutions (OJ 2001 L 125, p. 15).