3.8.2015   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 254/5


Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) lodged on 29 April 2015 — Pierre Mulhaupt, insolvency administrator of the Société Civile Immobilière Senior Home (SCI)

(Case C-195/15)

(2015/C 254/07)

Language of the case: German

Referring court

Bundesgerichtshof

Parties to the main proceedings

Appellant: Pierre Mulhaupt, insolvency administrator of the Société Civile Immobilière Senior Home (SCI)

Other parties:

Gemeinde Wedemark,

Hannoversche Volksbank eG

Question referred

Does the term ‘right in rem’ in Article 5(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 of 29 May 2000 on insolvency proceedings (1) include a national rule such as that contained in Paragraph 12 of the Grundsteuergesetz (Law on real property tax, ‘GrStG’) in conjunction with the first sentence of Paragraph 77(2) of the Abgabenordnung (Tax Code, ‘AO’), pursuant to which real property tax debts are by operation of law a public charge on real property and the property owner must accept enforcement against the property in that respect?


(1)  OJ 2000 L 160, p. 1.