Article 13

The contribution is a thorough and analytical commentary of Article 13 of the EU succession Regulation. The summary of the contribution is the following: I. Scope of the provision and rationale; II. A comparative survey of the procedures followed for the acceptance, waiver or limitation of liability in the various legal systems; III. The ‘persons’ covered by the provision, the ascertainment of their legal capacity and the identification of their habitual residence; IV. Scope of application of the provision: the need to distinguish between ‘declarations’ and ‘legal proceedings’; V. Non-applicability of article 13 to declarations made prior to the opening of the succession; VI. The concept of a ‘court’; VII. Formal validity of declarations; VIII. Communication of declarations to the authority ‘which is or will be dealing with the succession’.