Stay of Revision Proceedings Pending ECJ Preliminary Ruling on EU Law Interpretation

§ 148 Abs. 1 ZPO; Stay of Revision Proceedings Pending ECJ Preliminary Ruling on EU Law Interpretation: 1 ZPO, deferring to the pending preliminary reference in European Court of Justice Case C-440/23, resulting in no final substantive judgment on the merits at this stage. The dispute concerns a civil matter brought before the First Civil Senate, where the parties challenged a lower court decision, but the central issue required clarification of applicable EU law standards before the domestic proceeding could conclude. The decisive legal basis is the procedural power to suspend national proceedings to allow for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation or validity of EU law by the European Court of Justice, rendering the domestic outcome contingent upon the ECJ's forthcoming judgment.