25As regards the objective pursued by the provisions cited above, according to both the Report on the Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (OJ 1979 C 59, p. 1) and the settled case-law of the Court on Article 16(1)(a) of the Brussels Convention, which can be applied to the first paragraph of Article 22(1) of Regulation No 44/2001, the essential reason for conferring exclusive jurisdiction on the courts of the Contracting State in which the property is situated is that the courts of the locus rei sitae are the best placed, for reasons of proximity, to ascertain the facts satisfactorily and to apply the rules and practices which are generally those of the State in which the property is situated (see, by analogy, judgment in Weber, C‑438/12, EU:C:2014:212, paragraph 41 and the case-law cited).
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