Kompetencespørgsmålet skulle udelukkende afgøres efter bestemmelserne i konventio­nen af 1968, hvis artikel 3 udelukker nationale eksorbitante kompetenceregler — i Frankrig artiklerne 14 og 15 i Code civil.
It stated that jurisdiction depended exclusively on the provisions of the 1968 Con­vention, Article 3 of which provided that national rules of exorbitant jurisdiction — in France, Articles 14 and 15 of the Civil Code — were not to apply.