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The newly adopted Regulation (EU) No 650/2012 is an ambitious instrument dealing exhaustively with every private international law aspects in regard to cross-border successions. The Regulation aims at harmonizing private international law rules so as to enable individuals to organize more efficiently and more rapidly their successions within the area of freedom, security and justice. The present paper addressed the main innovations, advantages and pitfalls of the new Regulation.

This paper analyses the current status of mediation in civil and commercial matters in Poland, taking into account a variety of legal, psychological and sociological factors. In particular, it focuses on the most important factors which, in the author’s opinion, have a negative effect on the development of mediation in Poland. These factors include: negative socialisation, non-existence of authority figures, low level of public confidence and the lack of a conscious need to use mediation.

This briefing note offers an overview of family mediation in Romania and of the compliance of the national legal framework with the provisions of the EU Mediation Directive. It analyses the legal framework, the advantages and disadvantages of mediation in comparison with court litigation and the impact of the EU Mediation Directive on the Romanian legislative framework enforcing mediation in family law matters. It identifies the issues regarding the compliance with the EU Mediation Directive.

This report analyses the Italian legislation transposing Directive 2008/52/EC on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters. The Italian legislator has gone further than the requirements of the Directive: the possibility of using mediation is not restricted solely to cross-border disputes but applies to all disputes concerning alienable rights in civil and commercial matters. For certain disputes, mediation is a condition of admissibility of civil proceedings. The mediation service ...

Germany has to date not implemented the Mediation Directive. The government has drafted a mediation law. Both the Mediation Directive and the Mediation draft law merit approval as they retain mediation’s inherent flexibility. The most significant problem in practice is how confidential information from the mediation can be excluded as evidence in subsequent proceedings.

En la Directiva 2008/52/CE, de mayo de 2008, del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo sobre ciertos aspectos de la mediación en asuntos civiles y mercantiles, encontramos un ejemplo de la aplicación de las políticas comunitarias en la búsqueda de mejora, uniformidad y aproximación de los sistemas de justicia de los Estados de la Unión Europea a los ciudadanos. La transposición de la Directiva debe observarse por los Estados miembros antes de mayo de 2011. El objetivo de este trabajo es el de abordar ...