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 …
Oslo, 2022
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 …
A new CJEU judgment on the loss of the nationality of a Member State (S. Bariatti – ECJ, 18 January 2022, C-118/20)
Functional recognition of same-sex parenthood for the benefit of mobile Union citizens – Brief comments on the CJEU’s Pancharevo judgment (J. Meeusen – ECJ, 14 December 2021, C-490/20)
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 …
Council Amends Commission Proposal on the Law applicable to the Third-Party Effects of Assignments of Claims (F. Garcimartin)
Publication of the proceedings of a GEDIP conference in Problemy Prawa Prywatnego Miedzynarodowego
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, …
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 …
Trevor Hartley on Arbitration, the Brussels I Regulation and Brexit
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 …
