Contrary to both Preliminary Convention Drafts on insolvency proceedings, the Insolvency Regulation does not set out a specific rule on vis attractiva concursus. This silence is surprising given the fact that the ECJ had already held in the leading case Gourdain vs. Nadler that decisions deriving directly from insolvency proceedings, and closely connected with them, are not included within the scope of the Brussels Convention. The Regulation's silence and the fact that these claims were excluded from the Brussels Convention, now the Brussels I Regulation, had given rise to different interpretations, to which the ECJ has now put an end by stating in Seagon vs. Deko Marty Belgium that Article 3 of the Insolvency Regulation sets out the vis attractiva concursus principle. Moreover, this case has been immediately followed by SCT Industri vs. Alpenblume, and German Graphics vs. A. van der Schee, both cases with the same background, i.e. to determine which claims are within the scope of the Insolvency Regulation and, therefore, they have to be brought before the forum concursus. This paper tackles this background and the state of the question after Seagon vs. Deko Marty Belgium: the list of claims attracted by the forum concursus, deliberately not laid down by the Insolvency Regulation, is now to be compiled by the ECJ.

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Reflexiones desde el derecho italiano

El 14 de octubre de 2009 se presentó una Propuesta de reglamento del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo relativo a la competencia, la ley aplicable, el reconocimiento y la ejecución de las resoluciones y los actos auténticos en materia de sucesiones y a la creación de un certificado sucesorio europeo. Aunque sus principales características reflejan el estado de la cuestión en derecho internacional privado, no se puede decir lo mismo de los casos expresamente excluidos de su ámbito de aplicación. En este sentido, son más significativas las palabras que se omiten que las que se expresan, en la medida que quedan fuera del alcance de la sucesión.

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