<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>With the development of the internal market, the need to establish rules ensuring the protection of creditors in insolvency proceedings with a cross-border effect is increasing. Mechanisms at national level are difficult to provide the desired protection for foreign creditors. Since 26.06.2017 EU has a new Regulation 848/2015 which repeals the current Regulation 1346/2000. Despite the radical changes, it is attempting to implement this legislative act, the main objective of insolvency proceedings remains unchanged, namely, to achieve fair satisfaction of creditors. One of the mechanisms for the realisation of this objective are avoidance actions with international element for filling the insolvency estate. In view of the specifics of the procedure, the standard civil law mechanisms such as the Actio Pauliana are not impossible but are extremely inadequate and difficult to prove. In the practice of the Member States, many issues arise concerning the determination of jurisdiction and applicable law, creation of preconditions for the abuse in searching the most favourable legal system (forum shopping), there are differences in the so-called ‘suspicious periods’ and transactions concluded with affiliates. On this basis a fundamental jurisprudence of the CJEU has been enacted, the achievement of which will be the subject of this paper.</p></abstract>

With the development of the internal market, the need to establish rules ensuring the protection of creditors in insolvency proceedings with a cross-border effect is increasing. Mechanisms at national level are difficult to provide the desired protection for foreign creditors. Since 26.06.2017 EU has a new Regulation 848/2015 which repeals the current Regulation 1346/2000. Despite the radical changes, it is attempting to implement this legislative act, the main objective of insolvency proceedings remains unchanged, namely, to achieve fair satisfaction of creditors. One of the mechanisms for the realisation of this objective are avoidance actions with international element for filling the insolvency estate. In view of the specifics of the procedure, the standard civil law mechanisms such as the Actio Pauliana are not impossible but are extremely inadequate and difficult to prove. In the practice of the Member States, many issues arise concerning the determination of jurisdiction and applicable law, creation of preconditions for the abuse in searching the most favourable legal system (forum shopping), there are differences in the so-called ‘suspicious periods’ and transactions concluded with affiliates. On this basis a fundamental jurisprudence of the CJEU has been enacted, the achievement of which will be the subject of this paper.

European Court of Justice Jurisprudence in the Field of Avoidance Actions with International Elements for Filling the Insolvency Estate

“Neofit Rilski” South-West University

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With the development of the internal market, the need to establish rules ensuring the protection of creditors in insolvency proceedings with a cross-border...

European Court of Justice Jurisprudence in the Field of Avoidance Actions with International Elements for Filling the Insolvency Estate

Published Online: Jul 20, 2020

Page range: 205 - 210

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2020-0077

Keywords
Avoidance actions, insolvency procedure, creditor’s rights, Actio Pauliana

© 2020 Yordanka Noneva-Zlatkova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

European Court of Justice Jurisprudence in the Field of Avoidance Actions with International Elements for Filling the Insolvency Estate

Published Online: Jul 20, 2020

Page range: 205 - 210

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2020-0077

KeywordsAvoidance actions, insolvency procedure, creditor’s rights, Actio Pauliana

© 2020 Yordanka Noneva-Zlatkova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Avoidance actions, insolvency procedure, creditor’s rights, Actio Pauliana