Governing Inheritance Statutes after the Entry into Force of EU Succession Regulation

Governing Inheritance Statutes after the Entry into Force of EU Succession Regulation — GoInEU is a project co-funded by the EC DG Justice and Consumers, Justice Programme.

The General Objective of the action is: to contribute to the correct and coherent application of the Succession Regulation through analytical and capacity building activities targeting legal practitioners.

The Specific Objectives of the action are: 1. analyze the impact of the Succession Regulation in its first years of application with regard to: (i) migrant families; (ii) family models with different degrees of recognition in Member States; (iii) relationships with the new Family Regulations; (iv) successions interested by alien contractual schemes; (v) status filiations constituted abroad; (vi) inheritance of digital goods; 2. capacitate legal practitioners to correctly apply the Regulation in their daily practice and in cross-border situations.

Planned activities are: (i) publication of peer-reviewed research & analysis papers as well as a volume; (ii) development of training content for sessions in presence and an e-learning course hosted on a MOOC platform; (iii) external evaluation of project activities implementation and preliminary impact. 

Partners in the action are: the University of Florence - Coordinator, the Italian Foundation of Notaries, the Italian Association of Family Lawyers, the Universities of Budapest, Valencia, Lyon and Coimbra.

Persons benefiting from the project are: mainly notaries (40%), lawyers (30%), judges (10%), public officers involved in successions (10%), and also academics (10%). About 120 persons attend each planned training session, more are involved in research and analysis.

Expected results are: (i) uniform application of EU law that is fostered; (ii) EU citizens and migrants are better informed of the current implementation of EU law and trust their successions are recognized in Member States; (iii) discrimination against different family structures are effectively tackled; (iv) contribution to studying the impact of migration and the new emerging technologies on inheritance law is provided.

Outputs to be produced are: (i) a questionnaire on EU succession law distributed to legal practitioners; (ii) training content for in presence training, 1 e-learning course; (iii) published papers and volume; (iv) practical cases collected; (v) 3 training sessions and 1 final conference; (vi) project website;  (vii) evaluation reports.