https://www.hcch.net/?act=events.rss News | Tag: diplomaticsession Sat, 02 May 2026 20:48:11 GMT A great day for global justice and the Hague Conference on Private International Law. On 2 July 2019, the delegates of the 22nd Diplomatic Session of the HCCH signed the Final Act of, and thus adopted, the 2019 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters. The signing of the Final Act took place during a ceremony in the Great Hall of Justice in the Peace Palace, The Hague, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, His Excellency, Mr Stef Blok. The Minister emphasised that the new Convention:.. https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=687 https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=687 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:03:00 GMT On 18 June 2019, more than 400 delegates will gather in The Hague to finalise a much-wanted and long-awaited global multilateral treaty on the free circulation of judgments on civil or commercial matters across borders, a fundamental tool to promote international access to justice. A much-wanted HCCH Convention The HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention will be important for anyone who has cross-border private or business relationships as it ensures that successful cross-border litigants can vindicate their judicially established rights through a simple, effective and predictable recognition and.. https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=683 https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=683 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:10:00 GMT On Friday, 23 November 2007 the new Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance and a Protocol on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations were adopted by the Twenty-First Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The major features of the new Maintenance Convention are: A broadly based system for the recognition and enforcement of maintenance decisions made in Contracting States – combined with expedited procedures. A system of co-operation between Central Authorities in each country to.. https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=140 https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=140 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:24:00 GMT PRESS RELEASE - LEGAL New Hague Convention increases legal certainty for cross-border securities transactions The Hague, 13 December 2002 – For the financial markets, the exposures involved in cross-border securities transactions are extremely large – with securities worth hundreds of billions of dollars, Euros and Yen provided cross-border every day as collateral all around the globe. Until now, in many jurisdictions it has been somewhat alarmingly uncertain which law is applicable to cross-border securities transactions, leaving market participants exposed to a substantial amount of.. https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=8 https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=8 Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:40:00 GMT PRESS RELEASE1. From 6-22 June 2001 the Hague Conference on private international law met in Diplomatic Session (Nineteenth Session, first part) at the Peace Palace in the Hague, to pursue negotiations towards a new Convention on Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, and to decide on its future work programme.2. The delegations unanimously confirmed the great importance they attach to the Judgments Project. They felt, however, that the second part of the Diplomatic Session could not be held before the end of 2002 and that this Session should be prepared by a.. https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=29 https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=29 Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:52:00 GMT From 20 September to 2 October 1999, a Special Commission meeting of a diplomatic character will be held in the Peace Palace (Academy Building) at The Hague to finalise the project on the future Hague Convention on the protection of adults. In the course of Saturday, 2 October 1999, the French and English authentic texts of this Convention, as adopted by the Special Diplomatic Commission, will be made available on this website... https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=62 https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=62 Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:39:00 GMT A Special Diplomatic Commission of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, meeting at the Peace Palace from 20 September 1999 until 2 October 1999, drew up a new international convention for the protection in cross-border situations of adults who, by reason of an impairment or insufficiency of their personal faculties, are not in a position to protect their interests. The Convention on the International Protection of Adults is the major contribution of the Hague Conference to the year designated by the General Assembly of the United Nations as the International Year of Older.. https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=61 https://www.hcch.net/en/news-archive/details/?varevent=61 Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:36:00 GMT