23As a preliminary point, it must be observed that, even if Regulation No 1346/2000 contains, among others, conflict of laws rules aiming to determine international jurisdiction and the applicable law (see, to that effect Case C‑527/10 ERSTE Bank Hungary [2012] ECR, paragraph 38 and the case-law cited), Article 24 thereof does not count among such rules, but is a provision of substantive law which applies in each Member State independently of the lex concursus. The question referred asks only whether a payment such as that made by Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg to Kostner on the order of Grontimmo falls within paragraph 1 of that provision, according to which, where an obligation has been honoured in a Member State for the benefit of a debtor who is subject to insolvency proceedings opened in another Member State when it should have been honoured for the benefit of the liquidator in those proceedings, the person honouring the obligation must be deemed to have discharged that obligation if he was unaware of the opening of proceedings.
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