The European Parliament, after a lengthy debate, has eventually approved a reform of Regulation 1346/2000 on cross-border insolvency proceedings (hereinafter, the ‘Insolvency Regulation Recast’), which provides for significant innovations of the original Regulation, such as a EU-wide register of insolvencies and a new proceeding for insolvencies of corporate groups. The fundamental logic of the Regulation, however, does not change: the Recast does not harmonise insolvency rules at EU level and its goal is still selecting competent venues and applicable insolvency regimes. In many respects, the reform simply codifies CJEU’s case law, with the aim of increasing legal certainty. The Insolvency Regulation Recast is however innovative regarding the definition of COMI, by repealing the causality relation between criterions of ‘permanence’ and ‘ascertainability’. Eventually, the Recast aims at better coordinating secondary proceedings and main proceedings; in this regard, it introduces ‘synthetic secondary proceedings’, whereby the insolvency practitioner of a main proceeding undertakes to respect other Member States distributional criterions in order to avoid the opening of a secondary proceeding. The real impact of these innovations is however uncertain.

Private International Law Rules in the Insolvency Regulation Recast: A Reform or a Restatement of the Status Quo? / Mucciarelli, Federico Maria. - In: EUROPEAN COMPANY AND FINANCIAL LAW REVIEW. - ISSN 1613-2556. - STAMPA. - 13:1(2016), pp. 1-30. [10.1515/ecfr-2016-0001]

Private International Law Rules in the Insolvency Regulation Recast: A Reform or a Restatement of the Status Quo?

MUCCIARELLI, Federico Maria
2016

Abstract

The European Parliament, after a lengthy debate, has eventually approved a reform of Regulation 1346/2000 on cross-border insolvency proceedings (hereinafter, the ‘Insolvency Regulation Recast’), which provides for significant innovations of the original Regulation, such as a EU-wide register of insolvencies and a new proceeding for insolvencies of corporate groups. The fundamental logic of the Regulation, however, does not change: the Recast does not harmonise insolvency rules at EU level and its goal is still selecting competent venues and applicable insolvency regimes. In many respects, the reform simply codifies CJEU’s case law, with the aim of increasing legal certainty. The Insolvency Regulation Recast is however innovative regarding the definition of COMI, by repealing the causality relation between criterions of ‘permanence’ and ‘ascertainability’. Eventually, the Recast aims at better coordinating secondary proceedings and main proceedings; in this regard, it introduces ‘synthetic secondary proceedings’, whereby the insolvency practitioner of a main proceeding undertakes to respect other Member States distributional criterions in order to avoid the opening of a secondary proceeding. The real impact of these innovations is however uncertain.
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Private International Law Rules in the Insolvency Regulation Recast: A Reform or a Restatement of the Status Quo? / Mucciarelli, Federico Maria. - In: EUROPEAN COMPANY AND FINANCIAL LAW REVIEW. - ISSN 1613-2556. - STAMPA. - 13:1(2016), pp. 1-30. [10.1515/ecfr-2016-0001]
Mucciarelli, Federico Maria
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