Welcome to the Service Section
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The Hague Convention of 15 November 1965 on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (Hague Service Convention) provides for the channels of transmission to be used when a judicial or extrajudicial document is to be transmitted from one State Party to the Convention to another State Party for service in the latter. The Convention provides for one main channel of transmission (via Central Authority of requested State), and several alternative channels of transmission. For more information, see the Practical Handbook on the Operation of the Hague Service Convention (2006). |
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Text of the Convention - Model Form - Translations
- Full text of the Convention
- Model Form annexed to the Convention (Request, Certificate, Summary)
- Regular PDF (original Annex to the Convention)
- Regular PDF (revised to include the warning as per the Recommendation of the Fourteenth Session)
- Fillable PDF
- Translations of the text of the Convention
Contracting States
Authorities and other practical information
Practical operation documents
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Explanatory documents
- Practical Handbook on the Operation of the Hague Service Convention (3rd edition, 2006) - more information | how to order: directly at http://www.bruylant.be or use the order form | Russian translation of the Handbook
- Outline of the Convention - 2009
- Recommendation on information to accompany judicial and extrajudicial documents to be sent or served abroad in civil or commercial matters, adopted by the Fourteenth Session, and Report on the Recommendation
- Instructions for filling out the notice
- Table reflecting applicability of Articles 8(2), 10(a), (b) and (c), 15(2) and 16(3)
- Documents related to 2009 Special Commission
- See also below, under Questionnaires and Responses
- Conclusions and Recommendations
- Documents related to 2003 Special Commission
- Conclusions and Recommendations of the 2003 Special Commission
- See also below, under Questionnaires and responses
- Documents related to 1989 Special Commission
- Documents related to 1977 Special Commission
- Questionnaires and responses
- 2008 Questionnaire of July 2008 relating to the Hague Convention of 15 November 1965 on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters
- Responses to the 2008 Questionnaire (per State)
- Synopsis of the responses to the 2008 Questionnaire
- Summary and analysis of the responses to the 2008 Questionnaire
- 2007 Questionnaire Relating to the Practical Operation of the Hague Service Convention in the Russian Federation, and responses by the Russian Central Authority [English version | Russian version]
- 2003 Questionnaire accompanying the provisional version of the Practical Handbook on the operation of the Service Convention
- Responses to the 2003 Questionnaire (per State)
- Synopsis of the responses to the 2003 Questionnaire
Miscellaneous
- Bibliography (extract from the Practical Handbook)
- Ekaterinburg Seminar, May 2008: Implementation of the Hague Service and Evidence Conventions
- Saint Petersburg Seminar, January 2007: "Service of Process under the Hague 1965 Service Convention"
- Moscow Seminar, October 2005: "Service of Process under the Hague 1965 Service Convention"
- Useful links