Judgment_paragraph 55 · L v M (C-656/13)

55According to the actual wording of Article 12(3)(b) of Regulation No 2201/2003, the jurisdiction of the court chosen must have ‘been accepted expressly or otherwise in an unequivocal manner by all the parties to the proceedings at the time the court is seised’. Article 16 of that regulation states that a court is deemed to be seised, in principle, at the time when the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document is lodged with the court.