# Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 June 2019 on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, and on international child abduction (recast), Article 1: Scope

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. This Regulation applies in civil matters of:
(a) divorce, legal separation or marriage annulment;
(b) the attribution, exercise, delegation, restriction or termination of parental responsibility.
2. The matters referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 may, in particular, include:
(a) rights of custody and rights of access;
(b) guardianship, curatorship and similar institutions;
(c) the designation and functions of any person or body having charge of the person or property of a child, or representing or assisting a child;
(d) the placement of a child in institutional or foster care;
(e) measures for the protection of the child relating to the administration, conservation or disposal of the property of a child.
3. Chapters III and VI of this Regulation apply where the wrongful removal or retention of a child concerns more than one Member State, complementing the 1980 Hague Convention. Chapter IV of this Regulation applies to decisions ordering the return of a child to another Member State pursuant to the 1980 Hague Convention which have to be enforced in a Member State other than the Member State where the decision was given.
4. This Regulation does not apply to:
(a) the establishment or the contesting of a parent-child relationship;
(b) decisions on adoption, measures preparatory to adoption, or the annulment or revocation of adoption;
(c) the name and forenames of a child;
(d) emancipation;
(e) maintenance obligations;
(f) trusts or succession;
(g) measures taken as a result of criminal law offences committed by children.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1111/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1111/article-1
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