SEMINAR
Diversity in Unity: The Succession Regulation in Hungary and Beyond
Budapest, 12 April 2019
Programme
Morning session
9:00 Registration
9:45 Opening remarks
Attila Menyhárd, Professor of civil law, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Sara Landini, Associate Professor of private law, Responsible for the GoInEU Project Management and Coordination, Universitŕ di Firenze
Ádám Tóth, President of the Hungarian Chamber of Civil Law Notaries
Chair
Ádám Fuglinszky, Professor of civil law, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Head of the GoInEu Hungarian project team
10:30 International discrepancies due to the differences among substantive laws on succession in Europe
Lajos Vékás, Professor Emeritus of civil law, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Vice President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Codification Committee of the new Hungarian Civil Code
11:15 The European Succession Regulation – from the point of view of the first three years of application
Tibor Szőcs, Director of the Hungarian Notaries’ Institute
12:15 Questions, remarks, discussion
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon session
Chair
Orsolya Szeibert, Habil. Associate Professor of civil law, Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Member of the GoInEU project
13:30 First experiences of the application of the Succession Regulation in Hungarian judicial practice
András Osztovits, Judge – Curia (Supreme Court of Hungary), Director of the Hungarian Academy of the Judiciary
14:10 International Round Table on the practical application of the European Succession Certificate in several Member States
Moderator
Tamás Balogh, Vice Director of the Hungarian Notaries’ Institute
Speakers
Germany: Rembert Süß, PhD, Director of the Department for private international law at the German Notary Institute, Würzburg
Austria: Stephan Matyk-d’Anjony, Mag, Expert in European private law, Austrian Notary Chamber
Poland: Agata Srokowska, Judge, Expert in European pivate law, Polish Ministry of Justice, Warsaw
Romania: Dan Andrei Popescu, Civil law notary, Associate Professor, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Slovakia: Vojtech Kavečanský, Mag, Civil law notary, Košice
15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Exchange of best practices in small groups (of 20 people) divided by Hungarian and English languages– solving practical cases prepared by GoInEU and the Hungarian Chamber of Civil Law Notaries
17:30 – 18:00 Closing session and summary on best practices
The seminar will be held in Hungarian and English with simultaneous translation from 9:45 to 15:30 . The closing session will be held in Hungarian with a brief summary in English.