The NEW INCADAT was launched on 30 April 2010

A new version of the International Child Abduction Database - INCADAT - was launched on 30 April 2010. The new INCADAT website gives access to a completely revised and modernised database of case-law under the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention. The various improvements for the INCADAT users include: more user-friendly website navigation, enhanced functionality of the case law search as well as...

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European Union signs and ratifies 2007 Hague Protocol; Albania accedes to two Hague Conventions

On 8 April 2010, during the Council on General Affairs of the Hague Conference, the Hague Protocol of 23 November 2007 on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations was signed and ratified by the European Union.  On the same occasion, Albania acceded to the Hague Conventions of 1 March 1954 on civil procedure and of 1 February 1971 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign...

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Launch of the German section of the HCCH website

In 1998, the website of the Hague Conference was created in the Organisation's official languages, French and English. To meet the growing demand within the international community to access this information in other languages, a section called "Other languages" was created in 2009 with links to translations of the Hague Conventions and other documents relating to the HCCH in several languages. ...

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Another milestone for the electronic Apostille Pilot Program (e-APP)

Another milestone for the electronic Apostille Pilot Program (e-APP): New Zealand launches its e-Register of Apostilles and becomes the first jurisdiction to have completed a comprehensive implementation of both components of the e-APP Today the Authentication Unit of the Department of Internal Affairs (Te Tari Taiwhenua) of New Zealand officially launched its e-Register of Apostilles....

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e-APP: Mexico Launches State-of-the-art e-Register of Apostilles

[español]  Mexico joins the growing list of jurisdictions that have implemented at least one of the components of the electronic Apostille Pilot Program (e-APP). The Secretaría de Gobernación (the equivalent of the Ministry of the Interior), which is the Competent Authority at the federal level and which issues Apostilles for all public documents executed by the...

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Revamped Apostille Section

The Permanent Bureau is pleased to launch a revised and improved version of the popular Apostille Section of the Hague Conference website. The centrepiece of the revamped Section is the electronic version of the “ABCs of Apostilles” – a new brochure that provides basic information about the Apostille Convention and which will assist the millions of users of the Apostille...

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African Governments urged to adopt Hague Conventions on Children

High officials, judges and other experts from States in the Southern and Eastern African Region call for closer inter-State co-operation to protect vulnerable children in cross-frontier situations, and support implementation of the Hague Children's Conventions and the Apostille Convention The Seminar on Cross-Frontier Child Protection in the Southern and Eastern African Region was held from 22 to...

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