The judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Thursday 23 May in case C-658/17 that notaries in Poland cannot be considered as courts when they draw up certificates of inheritance, which is why these certificates are not decisions on matters of succession, although they are authentic instruments.
A Polish national, whose father died, had asked a notary established in Poland to provide him with a copy of the certificate of inheritance drawn up by that notary and a...