Judgment_paragraph 31 · Eirini Lechouritou and Others v Dimosio tis Omospondiakis Dimokratias tis Germanias (C-292/05)

31Thus, the Court has held that, although certain actions between a public authority and a person governed by private law may come within the scope of the Brussels Convention, it is otherwise where the public authority is acting in the exercise of its public powers (see LTU, paragraph 4; Rüffer, paragraph 8; Henkel, paragraph 26; Baten, paragraph 30; Préservatrice foncière TIARD, paragraph 22; and Case C-172/91 Sonntag [1993] ECR I-1963, paragraph 20).