The state of implementation of the EU Succession Regulation’s provisions on public policy’s exception, universal application and renvoi, the European Certificate of Succession and access to registers
Briefing
20-11-2017
This briefing, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs, provides an assessment of the state of implementation of the EU Regulation on cross-border succession with a view to determining whether it is fulfilling its goal of ensuring legal certainty, predictability and simplification for citizens. It focusses, in particular, on the provisions on public policy’s exception, universal application, renvoi and on the European Certificate of Succession.
Briefing
External author
Isidoro Antonio Calvo Vidal, Civil Law Notary, Doctor in Law
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Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- civil law
- documentation
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- EU Member State
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- executive power and public service
- GEOGRAPHY
- inheritance
- international law
- judicial cooperation in civil matters in the EU
- jurisdiction
- LAW
- law of succession
- mutual recognition principle
- official document
- organisation of the legal system
- POLITICS
- private international law
- proposal (EU)
- public policy
- regulation (EU)