EU SUCCESSION REGULATION No 650/2012

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Table of Contents
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Article 67 – Issue of the Certificate .................................................................................... 621
I. Content of the rule............................................................................................................. 622
II. Prerequisites for issue of the Certificate ......................................................................... 622
1. Procedural prerequisites .................................................................................................622
2. Substantive prerequisites ................................................................................................624
III. The duty to issue a Certificate........................................................................................ 627
1. Immediate issue of the Certificate ...................................................................................627
2. Use of a specific form ..................................................................................................... 627
3. Informing the beneficiaries of the issue of the Certificate...............................................627
Article 68 – Contents of the Certificate ............................................................................. 628
I. Introduction .......................................................................................................................629
II. Information with regard to the aim pursued.................................................................. 630
III. Individual features of the content..................................................................................631
Article 69 – Effects of the Certificate................................................................................. 635
I. Content of the rule............................................................................................................. 636
II. Main prerequisite for the Certificate to produce its effects ......................................... 636
III. Immediate and prerequisite-free force of the effects of the European
Certificate of Succession (para. 1) ..................................................................................637
IV. Establishment of the legal presumption ....................................................................... 637
V. Fides publica (public faith) of the Certificate ................................................................ 639
1. Making payments and passing on property (para. 3) .......................................................639
2. Disposing of succession property (para. 4)...................................................................... 642
VI. Recording of the Certificate (para. 5) ............................................................................643
Article 70 – Certified copies of the Certificate ................................................................ 645
Ι. General overview ..............................................................................................................645
II. Issue of certified copies (para. 1).................................................................................... 646
III. List of certified copies (para. 2) .....................................................................................647
IV. Duration of validity of certified copies (para. 3) .......................................................... 647
Article 71 – Rectification, modification or withdrawal of the Certificate................. 649
I. General overview ............................................................................................................... 649
II. The aim of the rule........................................................................................................... 650
III. Rectification of clerical errors (para. 1) ........................................................................ 650
IV. Modification or withdrawal of the Certificate (para. 2).............................................. 651
V. Duty to inform (para. 3) ...................................................................................................653
Article 72 – Redress procedures .......................................................................................... 656
I. The aim and evolution of the rule .................................................................................... 657
II. Admissibility of redress procedures ............................................................................... 657
III. The right to challenge a decision ...................................................................................657
IV. Competent courts ............................................................................................................658
V. Ruling on the redress procedures (para. 2) ..................................................................... 660