Overriding mandatory rule: // Cf. Article 7 of the Convention. Concept of private international law which designates the provisions to which a state attaches such importance that it requires them to be applied wherever the legal situation is connected with its territory, whatever law is otherwise applicable to the situation. Unlike the mechanism of the international public-policy exception, the court does not look to its conflict rules to ascertain the applicable law and evaluate whether its content may be incompatible with the system of values of the forum but automatically applies its own rules ...[+++].

Considerations of public interest should allow courts and other competent authorities dealing with matters of succession in the Member States to disregard, in exceptional circumstances, certain provisions of a foreign law where, in a given case, applying such provisions would be manifestly incompatible with the public policy (ordre public) of the Member State concerned.

In order to ensure that the courts of all Member States may, on the same grounds, exercise jurisdiction in relation to the succession of persons not habitually resident in a Member State at the time of death, this Regulation should list exhaustively, in a hierarchical order, the grounds on which such subsidiary jurisdiction may be exercised.

2. The members of the Council shall vote in the order of the Member States laid down in the list of successive presidencies, beginning with the member who, according to that order, follows the member holding the office of President.