On Thursday, 5 September, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled in Case C-109/23 that a notary is not breaching EU sanctions against Russia when he authenticates the sale of a property that belongs to an unlisted Russian company.
In this judgment, the Court of Justice answered Berlin’s regional court, which asked it about the case of a Berlin notary who refused to authenticate a contract of sale for a flat located in Berlin that belongs to a Russian company. According to the...