Judgment_paragraph 28 · Agostinho da Silva Martins v Dekra Claims Services Portugal SA (C-149/18)

28The requirement for consistency in the application of the Rome I and Rome II Regulations (judgment of 21 January 2016, ERGO Insurance and Gjensidige Baltic, C‑359/14 and C‑475/14, EU:C:2016:40, paragraph 43) supports the harmonisation wherever possible of the interpretation of the concepts used by those two regulations which are, in functional terms, identical. It must therefore be held that, irrespective of the fact that certain language versions of the Rome II Regulation use different terminology compared to the Rome I Regulation, ‘dispositions impératives dérogatoires’ (‘overriding mandatory provisions’), within the meaning of Article 16 of the Rome II Regulation, fall within the definition of ‘lois de police’ (‘overriding mandatory provisions’), within the meaning of Article 9 of the Rome I Regulation, so that the Court’s interpretation of the latter concept also applies to ‘dispositions impératives dérogatoires’ (‘overriding mandatory provisions’) within the meaning of Article 16 of the Rome II Regulation.