See also RSC Order 71

	Contents of this Practice Direction
	PART V. RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT: COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) NO 44/2001 OF 22ND DECEMBER 2000 ON JURISDICTION AND THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS IN CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL MATTERS.

PART V. RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT: COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) NO 44/2001 OF 22ND DECEMBER 2000 ON JURISDICTION AND THE RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS IN CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL MATTERS.

1.1

Where a judgment is to be recognised or enforced in a Regulation State (i.e. any Member State except Denmark) Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22nd December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters ('the Judgments Regulation') applies.

1.2	As a consequence of Article 38(2) of the Judgments Regulation, the provisions in Chapter III of that Regulation relating to declaring judgments enforceable are the equivalent, in the United Kingdom, to provisions relating to registering judgments for enforcement.

1.3	Chapter III of, and Annex V to, the Judgments Regulation are annexed to this practice direction. Originally published in the official languages of the European Community in the Official Journal of the European Communities by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

1.4	Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter III of the Judgments Regulation (in particular articles 40, 53, 54, 55 and Annex V) set out the evidence needed in support of an application.

1.5	The Judgments Regulation is supplemented by the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Order 2001. The Order also makes amendments, in respect of that Regulation, to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982Acts.

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