Court of Justice 18 April 2002, C-271/00 (Gemeente Steenbergen v Luc Baten.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1 By order of 27 June 2000, the Hof van Beroep te Antwerpen (Belgium) (hereinafter `the Court of Appeal of Antwerp') referred to the Court two questions for a preliminary ruling concerning the interpretation of Article 1 of the Brussels Convention of 27 September 1968 on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and