French Conference on the Recast of the Brussels I bis Regulation

The French Cour de Cassation will host a conference on the recast of the Brussels I bis Regulation on Monday, 23 June 2025, from 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm. The conference is organised by Marie-Elodie Ancel (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas) and Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), following the 2023-2024 seminar series on the recast of Brussels I bis Regulation.

The conference will be held in French and will also be broadcast live on the Cour de Cassation’s YouTube channel.

The conference presentation is as follows:

The Brussels I bis Regulation continues to give rise to a significant, and even growing, number of preliminary ruling requests. This situation calls both for clarifying its text and adapting it to new scenarios and policy challenges, as well as for reflecting more broadly on its objectives and on the role to be played by the Court of Justice of the European Union in this context.

On the occasion of a series of seven conferences held at the Cour de Cassation in 2023–2024, a reflection was launched on a number of cross-cutting and-specific issues which may need to be revisited in view of the forthcoming revision of the Regulation.

This conference aims to examine the reform options put forward by the European Commission and to identify those that may still be raised in the subsequent phases of the revision process.

Speakers include Laura Liubertaite (agent, DG Justice and Consumers, European Commission); Vanessa El Khoury-Moal (Head of the Mutual Assistance and Private and European International Law Department, DACS, French Ministry of Justice); Sylvain Bollée (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Gilles Cuniberti (University of Luxembourg); Marie-Laure Niboyet (University of Paris Nanterre); Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne); Marie-Elodie Ancel (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas).

Registration is available online here.