Il rinvio ai criteri di giurisdizione della convenzione di Bruxelles: le Sezioni Unite pongono fine a una lunga stagione di incertezza

[Autom. eng. transl.] 1. The case: United Section, 28 February 2024, no. 5303 – 2. The rules under discussion – 2.1. Historical evolution of the Brussels I regime – 2.2. The space left by European rules to rules from internal sources – 2.3. European rules evolve, the referral remains unchanged – 3. The terms of the problem: nature and function of art. 3 of Law no. 218/1995 – 3.1. A referral referring to the criteria of the Convention, not to its rules, but of a dynamic nature – 3.2. The dispute over the interpretation of the referral: the historical and dynamic thesis. – 4. The precedents – 4.1. The Monegasque case (2009) – 4.2. The Venezuelan case (2018) – 4.3. The Guernsey case (2019) – 4.4. The Chinese case (2021) – 4.5. The final gasps: the cases of 2022 and 2023 – 4.6. The referral orders of the Second Section (2023) – 5. The solution accepted by the United Sections – 6. A shareable outcome, based on a non-persuasive argument – 6.1. An approach that does not reflect the meaning and function of the referral – 6.2. An incomplete reconstruction of the relevant data – 6.3. The key to resolving the ambivalence detected – 6.4. References to other questions raised by the referral – 6.5. The future of the referral to European criteria – 7. Fifteen years of avoidable uncertainties: the warning sign of a more general problem.