Summary
Pursuant to the combined provision of Article 28 of the Warsaw Convention of 12 October 1929 and of Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No44/ 2001, Italian courts have jurisdiction over an action on a guarantee brought by the defendant, an Italian company, against a French company in relation to a contract of international carriage by air, if the French company has entered an appearance and has objected only that the court seised is not the proper venue, without pleading the lack of jurisdiction of Italian courts.