EU Action in the Field of Small claims Procedures and the Limits Resulting from its Implementatiob in the National Legal Systems

• Published in: Revista Ítalo-Española de Derecho Procesal Vol. 1; no. 1; pp. 37 - 49
• Main Authors: Maffeo, Adriano, Rolando, Flavia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Marcial Pons 27-01-2022
• Subjects: Cross-border cases; European Small Claims Procedure; National procedural rules; Procedural autonomy; SCAN Project
• ISSN: 2605-5244; 2605-5244
• DOI: 10.37417/rivitsproc/682

This article aims to illustrate, in the first part, the reasons that led the Union to adopt a regulation on small claims, focusing on the objectives set by the EU legislator in 2007 and 2015, through the amending regulation.
In the second part, the effects that such an instrument is intended to have on internal legal systems will be examined, highlighting in a critical light the limits that derive from the need to integrate the EU mechanism with national procedural rules.