Idziski, Case C-232/25, CJEU (Second Chamber), 18 June 2026

Determination of the competent court in a case of defamation occurred through the dissemination of audiovisual content on the internet and on television. 

Regulation (EU) No. 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, Art. 5(3).

Regulation (EU) No. 1215/2012 of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, Art. 7(2). 

1. Where an alleged infringement of rights of personality results from the dissemination of audiovisual content, the courts of the Member State in which a natural person has his or her centre of interests do not have jurisdiction to adjudicate on the entirety of the damage where the content, although identifying a limited and defined group of persons to which that individual may be linked, does not enable that person to be identified, even indirectly, as an individual. By contrast, the courts of the centre of interests of a legal person whose principal task is to defend the interests of that group have jurisdiction to adjudicate on the entirety of the damage resulting from the dissemination of that content on the internet.

2. Courts having jurisdiction only in respect of the damage suffered within the territory of its Member State may adjudicate on claims for compensation and on measures intended to prevent or eliminate the effects of the alleged infringement only insofar as the damage is suffered in that Member State. They do not, however, have jurisdiction to hear an action seeking the rectification of content disseminated on the internet, since such a claim is one and indivisible and may be brought only before a court having jurisdiction on the entirety of the damage.