# Absence of a positive definition

The substantive scope of application of the Regulation is not defined insofar as the questions to which the Regulation applies are not specified.

A certain number of indications can be obtained from the Regulation and its preamble (follow the treasure hunt!)

- Point 11 of the Preamble specifies that the Regulation should not apply to areas of civil law other than successions and Article 1(1) states that the Regulation applies to successions to the estates of deceased persons.

- Article 3 of the Regulation defines a certain number of notions which are central to the Regulation and notably that of succession, which encompasses both testate and intestate successions.

- Articles 26 and 27, meanwhile, concern the formal and substantive validity of dispositions of property upon death.

When put end to end, the various articles of the Regulation provide quite a comprehensive vision of the questions governed by the Regulation.