On Friday 8 December, the European justice ministers agreed to drop the exequatur procedure for all parental responsibility decisions, in the framework of the revision of the 'Brussels IIa' regulation.
The move will mean that a decision which is enforceable in the member state of origin will be directly enforceable in the member state of execution, with no requirement for a declaration of enforceability. Although the member states agreed on this principle, they stressed the need to introduce...