News – GEDIP

Virtual meeting, 2021

The 31st meeting of the Group has been held on 17 and 18 September 2021 in virtual mode. The Group continued its work on proposals for European instruments on rights in rem and corporate responsibility for human rights and the environment. It also continued its work …

Alegría Borrás Rodríguez (1943-2020)

La disparition d’Alegría Borrás Rodríguez laisse un vide douloureux et touche le GEDIP de manière marquante. Alegría fut parmi les membres fondateurs de notre association, son intégration au groupe ayant été recommandée par François Rigaux compte tenu de sa réputation, déjà à l’époque, d’internationaliste confirmée. Dès …

Trevor Hartley on Arbitration, the Brussels I Regulation and Brexit

Professor Trevor Hartley has just published an article on “Arbitration and the Brussels I Regulation – Before and After Brexit” in the Journal of Private International Law, 2021, issue 1. The article can be found in open access here: Arbitration and the Brussels I Regulation – …

EU legal initiative on the recognition of parenthood

The EU has launched a legislative initiative on the recognition of parenthood between Member States. The adoption of a Proposal for a Regulation is foreseen for the second quarter of 2022. The inception impact assessment and the feed-back received is available at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12878-Cross-border-family-situations-recognition-of-parenthood_en . The public …

Publication of the proceedings of a GEDIP conference in Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Miedzynarodowego In September 2019, the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland) hosted the GEDIP/EGPIL annual session, at the invitation of Advocate General Maciej Szpunar. On this occasion, …

Council Amends Commission Proposal on the Law applicable to the Third-Party Effects of Assignments of Claims

On 7 June 2021, the Council of the EU approved its general approach on the proposal for a regulation on the law applicable to the third-party effects of assignments of claims (“the Council General Approach” or “the proposal”). The text adopted by the Council has introduced …

Functional recognition of same-sex parenthood for the benefit of mobile Union citizens – Brief comments on the CJEU’s Pancharevo judgment

Johan MeeusenUniversity of Antwerp, Belgium; www.uantwerpen.be/johan-meeusen Introduction The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the Pancharevo case (CJEU 14 December 2021, V.M.A./Stolichna obshtina, rayon ‘Pancharevo’, C-490/20, ECLI:EU:C:2021:1008) was eagerly awaited. A few years ago, in Coman (judgment of 5 June …

A new CJEU judgment on the loss of the nationality of a Member State

Stefania BariattiUniversity of Milan, Italy Introduction: the precedents. After a few years the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued its third judgment on the loss of the nationality of a Member State (CJEU, Grand Chamber, 18 January 2022, JY v Wiener Landesregierung, …

L’autonomie procédurale face au respect dû à l’autonomie du juge (Marc Fallon – CJUE, 7 avril 2022, C-645/20)

Marc FallonUniversité catholique de Louvain, Belgique Introduction L’arrêt rendu le 7 avril 2022 par la 5e chambre de la Cour dans l’affaire VA & ZA (C-645/20, ECLI:EU:C:2022:267), sur les conclusions de l’avocat général M. Campos Sánchez-Bordona, en interprétation du règlement Successions 650/2022, établit une obligation pour le …

La 32e réunion annuelle du GEDIP s’est tenue du 9 au 11 septembre 2022 à Oslo, sur invitation de .Giuditta Cordero-Moss.

The OE/VY case: the CJEU takes a pragmatic approach to the nationality privilege of Article 3(1)(a) Brussels IIa Regulation (Johan Meeusen, comment on ECJ, 10 February 2022, C-522/20)

On 10 February 2022, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) rendered its judgment in case C-522/20, OE/VY (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:62020CJ0522; ECLI:EU:C:2022:87). It ruled that the sixth indent of Article 3(1)(a) of the Brussels IIa Regulation (Regulation 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments …