Submission of a European Certificate of Succession for registration

• If you offer a certified copy of the European Certificate of Succession for registration in the form of a hardcopy, please also submit a copy of this certified copy. The certified copy of the European Certificate of Succession will be signed by the registrar and returned to you together with a registration report. The copy of this certified copy will be registered. To guarantee that this copy is identical with the certified copy of the European Certificate of Succession, a declaration of identicalness (“verklaring van eensluidendheid”) has to be provided. The issuing authority has to place the following declaration (in Dutch) at the end of the copy:
• Ondergetekende, … [titel]  ……..[naam autoriteit van afgifte], … [notaris/rechter/…]te …….[plaats], verklaart dat het afschrift eensluidend is met het ter inschrijving aangeboden stuk.
• Non-certified English translation:
  Undersigned, “title (if applicable)” “full name of authority”, “notary/judge/…” in“name of the city where the office is registered”, certifies that the copy is identical to the document that is offered for registration.
• If you offer a copy of the European Certificate of Succession digitally, a declaration of equivalence (“equivalentieverklaring”) has to be provided. The issuing authority has to place the following declaration (in Dutch) at the end of the copy:
• Ondergetekende, … [titel]  ……..[naam autoriteit van afgifte], … [notaris/rechter/…]te …….[plaats], verklaart dat dit afschrift inhoudelijk een volledige en juiste weergave is van de inhoud van het stuk waarvan het een afschrift is.
• Non-certified English translation 
  Undersigned, “title (if applicable)” “full name of authority”, “notary/judge/…” in“name of the city where the office is registered”, certifies that the copy is with regards to content a complete and correct reproduction of the content of the document of which it is a copy.
• Is the European Certificate of Succession or a request for rectification, modification, withdrawal, or suspension of the effects drawn up in a language other than Dutch? Are the attachments to the European Certificate of Succession or to either of the foregoing requests drawn up in a language other than Dutch? Please submit a certified Dutch translation of the respective documents.
• The European Certificate of Succession as well as a request for rectification, modification, withdrawal, or suspension of the effects has to be submitted on blank A4 paper with standard quality.
• The document has to be printed double-sided and may not contain blank pages.
• The submitted document may not be folded.

Would you like to offer a European Certificate of Succession for registration? Or would you like to rectify, modify, withdraw, or suspend the effects of a European Certificate of Succession? Please send the required documents to:

Kadaster Arnhem
Mr. E.N. van Kleffensstraat 8
6842 CV Arnhem
The Netherlands

The Kadaster does not charge a fee for the registration of a European Certificate of Succession.

If you have any questions about the registration of a European Certificate of Succession at Kadaster, please contact the Registrars’ Telephone: 

• phone number: 0031 88 183 22 42
• through the contact form for the Registrar's Telephone

The registrars’ telephone can be contacted on working days between 9 o’clock am and 5 o’clock pm.