27In addition, according to settled case-law, Article 23(1) of Regulation No 44/2001 must be interpreted as meaning that, like the aim pursued by the first paragraph of Article 17 of the Convention of 27 September 1968 on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, ensuring the real consent of the parties is one of the aims of that provision (see, inter alia, judgment of 7 February 2013 in Refcomp, C‑543/10, EU:C:2013:62, paragraph 28 and case-law cited) and that, consequently, that provision imposes on the court before which the matter is brought the duty of examining whether the clause conferring jurisdiction upon it was in fact the subject of consensus between the parties, which must be clearly and precisely demonstrated (see, inter alia, judgments of 9 November 2000 in Coreck, C‑387/98, EU:C:2000:606, paragraph 13 and the case-law cited, and of 7 February 2013 in Refcomp, C‑543/10, EU:C:2013:62, paragraph 27).
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