25In the third place, it should also be observed that, as has repeatedly been held by the Court in its case-law concerning Article 7(2) of Regulation No 1215/2012, the notion of ‘place where the harmful event occurred’ is intended to cover both the place where the damage occurred and the place of the event giving rise to it, so that the defendant may be sued, at the option of the applicant, in the courts for either of those places (judgments of 28 January 2015, Kolassa, C‑375/13, EU:C:2015:37, paragraph 45; of 16 June 2016, Universal Music International Holding, C‑12/15, EU:C:2016:449, paragraph 28; and of 5 July 2018, flyLAL-Lithuanian Airlines, C‑27/17, EU:C:2018:533, paragraph 28 and the case-law cited).
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