Press Release: Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-195/08 PPU. Rinau

The first urgent preliminary ruling procedure requires the Court to clarify Community rules relating to the return of a child wrongfully retained in another Member State. Once a decision refusing the return of a child has been taken and brought to the attention of the court of origin, its replacement by a decision of return does not prevent the court of origin from certifying the enforceability of its own decision ordering the return of the child.