The main connecting factors of Regulation 650/2012 for the first time before the Court of Justice of the European Union

Abstract

After six years of application, Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 has been confirmed as one of the great texts on European PIL. Its extensive and complex content requires, as it was to be expected, a continuous and delicate construction by the courts, in particular the Court of Justice of the European Union, because of the binding nature of its decisions, which, in this area and so far, amount to ten. From a temporal perspective, two periods can be distinguished in the case law of the CJEU on the Succession Regulation: an initial one, which runs from the end of 2017 to mid-2020 and a subsequent one, starting in the summer of 2021, in which we are currently immersed. The CJEU's Judgment of 16 July 2020 (Case C-80/19) is a key piece of this sequence, because, besides constituting the link between one stage and the other, it tackles some of the core issues of this Regulation.