<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The Brussels regime is a legislative framework that regulates questions of transnational litigation in the European Union. Having been initially shaped upon negotiation of the 1968 Brussels Convention, it has been subsequently superseded and expanded in scope by the Brussels I Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, alongside other instruments addressing specific areas of law. Recently, the Brussels regime has been amended by the Recast Brussels I Regulation, which entered into force on January 15, 2015, bringing about significant and long-awaited change. Addressing the experience of application of its predecessors, the changes in the Recast Regulation have been introduced to the treatment of choice-of-court agreements and their relationship with the <italic>lis pendens</italic> doctrine, abolition of exequatur, reaffirmation and clarification of the arbitration exclusion, as well as further minor amendments.</p></abstract>

The Brussels regime is a legislative framework that regulates questions of transnational litigation in the European Union. Having been initially shaped upon negotiation of the 1968 Brussels Convention, it has been subsequently superseded and expanded in scope by the Brussels I Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, alongside other instruments addressing specific areas of law. Recently, the Brussels regime has been amended by the Recast Brussels I Regulation, which entered into force on January 15, 2015, bringing about significant and long-awaited change. Addressing the experience of application of its predecessors, the changes in the Recast Regulation have been introduced to the treatment of choice-of-court agreements and their relationship with the lis pendens doctrine, abolition of exequatur, reaffirmation and clarification of the arbitration exclusion, as well as further minor amendments.

A Step Forward in the Harmonization of European Jurisdiction: Regulation Brussels I Recast

Tallinn University of Technology, School of Law (Estonia)

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics

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The Brussels regime is a legislative framework that regulates questions of transnational litigation in the European Union. Having been initially shaped upon...

A Step Forward in the Harmonization of European Jurisdiction: Regulation Brussels I Recast

Published Online: Feb 29, 2016

Page range: 159 - 181

Received: Nov 03, 2015

Accepted: Dec 29, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2015-0023

Keywords
Regulation 1215/2012 Brussels I Recast, Brussels regime, abolition of exequatur, choice-of-court agreements,

© 2015 Hamed Alavi et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Step Forward in the Harmonization of European Jurisdiction: Regulation Brussels I Recast

Published Online: Feb 29, 2016

Page range: 159 - 181

Received: Nov 03, 2015

Accepted: Dec 29, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bjlp-2015-0023

KeywordsRegulation 1215/2012 Brussels I Recast, Brussels regime, abolition of exequatur, choice-of-court agreements,

© 2015 Hamed Alavi et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Regulation 1215/2012 Brussels I Recast, Brussels regime, abolition of exequatur, choice-of-court agreements,