Suspension of civil appeal pending CJEU ruling on European law interpretation

§ 148 Abs. 1 ZPO; Suspension of civil appeal pending CJEU ruling on European law interpretation: 1 ZPO, pending a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C-440/23. The dispute concerns a civil matter before the First Civil Senate, where the court halted its decision to resolve a threshold legal question referred to the CJEU, leaving the status of the lower court’s judgment in abeyance without a final determination on the merits. The decisive legal basis is the suspension mechanism of § 148 Abs. 1 ZPO in coordination with Article 267 TFEU, applied to ensure uniform interpretation of European law before the domestic court proceeds with the final judgment.