38The fact remains that the expression ‘place where the harmful event occurred or may occur’ Article 5(3) of Regulation No 44/2001 is intended to cover both the place where the damage occurred and the place of the event giving rise to it, so that the defendant may be sued, at the option of the applicant, in the courts for either of those places (judgments in Melzer, C‑228/11, EU:C:2013:305, paragraph 25, and in Kolassa, C‑375/13, EU:C:2015:37, paragraph 45).
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