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Hague Convention on Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters

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Signed
  
1 February 1971

Effective
  
20 August 1979

Location
  
The Netherlands

Signatories
  
3

Condition
  
Ratification by 3 states

Parties
  
5 (as of 2013) Albania, Cyprus, Kuwait, Portugal and the Netherlands

The Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters is a multilateral treaty governing the enforcement of judgments entered by one nation's legal authorities in other signatory nations. It is one of a number of conventions in the area of Private International Law of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in 1971.

States parties

Albania, Cyprus, Kuwait, Portugal and the Netherlands (Territory in Europe and Aruba) are parties to the convention.

References

Hague Convention on Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters Wikipedia