CELEX: 62016CA0558
Language: en
Date: 2018-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Case C-558/16: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 1 March 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Kammergericht Berlin — Germany) — proceedings brought by Doris Margret Lisette Mahnkopf (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Area of freedom, security and justice — Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 — Succession and European Certificate of Succession — Scope — Ability to include the surviving spouse’s share in the European Certificate of Succession)

23.4.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 142/9
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 1 March 2018 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Kammergericht Berlin — Germany) — proceedings brought by Doris Margret Lisette Mahnkopf
   (Case C-558/16) (1)
   
   ((Reference for a preliminary ruling - Area of freedom, security and justice - Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 - Succession and European Certificate of Succession - Scope - Ability to include the surviving spouse’s share in the European Certificate of Succession))
   (2018/C 142/12)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Kammergericht Berlin
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   Doris Margret Lisette Mahnkopf
   
      Other party: Sven Mahnkopf
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 1(1) of Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and acceptance and enforcement of authentic instruments in matters of succession and on the creation of a European Certificate of Succession must be interpreted as meaning that a national provision, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which prescribes, on the death of one of the spouses, a fixed allocation of the accrued gains by increasing the surviving spouse’s share of the estate falls within the scope of that regulation.
   
      (1)  OJ C 30, 30.1.2017.