Montenegro accedes to Hague Service and Evidence Conventions

On 16 January 2012, the depositary of the Hague Conventions received the instruments of accession from Montenegro to (1) the Hague Convention of 15 November 1965 on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters and (2) the Hague Convention of 18 March 1970 on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters.

Montenegro has thus become the 65th Contracting State to the Service Convention and the 56th Contracting State to the Evidence Convention