30It is clear from recital 15 of Regulation No 44/2001 that that article is intended, inter alia, to obviate problems flowing from national differences as to the determination of the time when a case is regarded as pending, that time being defined autonomously. Furthermore, as the Advocate General notes in point 67 of his Opinion, it is clear from the legislative work preceding the adoption of that regulation, in particular the Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (COM(1999) 348 final), that the aim of Article 30 thereof was to reduce the problems and legal uncertainties caused by the wide variety of arrangements which existed in the Member States for determining the time when a court is seised, by means of a substantive rule permitting the easy and standardised identification of that time.
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