Paul Beaumont, Jonathan Fitchen y Jayne Holliday.: The evidentiary effects of authentic acts in the Member States of the European Union, in the context of successions, 2016.

• Abstract.: The EU Succession Regulation (Regulation 650/2012) allows for cross-border circulation of authentic instruments in a matter of succession. Authentic instruments are documents created by authorised authorities which benefit from certain evidential advantages. As this Regulation does not harmonise Member State substantive laws or procedures concerning succession the laws relating to the domestic evidentiary effects of succession authentic instruments remain diverse. Article 59 of the Succession Regulation requires the Member States
  party to the Regulation to give succession authentic instruments the evidentiary effects they would enjoy in their Member State of origin. The only limits on this obligation being public policy or the irreconcilability of the authentic instrument with a court decision, court settlement or another authentic instrument. This study, which was commissioned by the Policy Department for Citizen's Rights and Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament upon request of the Committee on Legal Affairs, provides an information resource for legal practitioners concerning the evidentiary effects of succession authentic instruments in the 25 Member States bound by (Texto completo). 
• El informe relativo a España ha sido elaborado por Miriam Anderson (Universidad de Barcelona) y Maria Font (Universidad Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona).

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Noticias vinculadas:

• New EU rules simplify cross-border succession cases.
• La Comisión Europea acoge con satisfacción la web multilingüe sobre sucesiones destinada a mantener informados a los ciudadanos sobre la legislación nacional en esta materia.

Más información:

• Normas sucesorias en la Unión Europea.