24Also according to settled case-law, it follows that the concept of ‘matters relating to a contract’ in Article 5(1) of the Brussels Convention is not to be understood as covering a situation in which there is no obligation freely assumed by one party towards another (Handte, paragraph 15, Réunion européenne and Others, paragraph 17, and Tacconi, paragraph 23, cited above).
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