EAPIL to Establish Working Group on Institutions Analogous to Trusts
The European Association of Private International Law calls for expressions of interest from its members in participating in a Working Group on Trusts and Institutions Analogous to Trusts in the context of the 1985 Hague Trusts Convention.
The immediate goal of the establishment of the Working Group is to prepare for the participation of and represent EAPIL in a Working Group to review and finalise the Report of the Study on Institutions Analogous to Trusts established by the Hague Conference on Private International Law (for more on this, see the Conclusions and Decisions adopted at the latest meeting of the Conference’s Council on General Affairs and Policy, paras 70-73). EAPIL has been invited to attend the meetings of the Experts’ Group as an observer.
The Hague Conference Expert Group will hold its first meeting from 6 to 8 May 2025. While EAPIL should be represented during the meeting, it is not necessary that all members of the EAPIL Working Group participate (in fact, limits may be imposed on the number of persons attending a meeting on behalf of any given observer).
The board of the association has designated as provisional chair of the EAPIL Working Group Professor Gilles Cuniberti. EAPIL Members interested in joining the EAPIL Working Group are invited to contact Gilles Cuniberti at gilles.cuniberti@uni.lu before 7 April 2025.
The members of the EAPIL Working Group will then designate the chair of the Working Group and define the scope of its mission.
While it will be for the EAPIL Working Group to decide whether it also wants to work on other topics related to the 1985 Convention, the Hague Working Group is more specifically concerned with institutions analogous to trusts within the meaning of Article 2 of the Convention. It would therefore be particularly useful if the EAPIL Working Groups included EAPIL members familiar with such analogous institutions from Contracting States to the Hague Trusts Convention belonging to the civil law tradition (Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco).