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...
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. ...
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....
International Judicial Conference on Cross-Border Family Relocation
Hague Child Abduction Convention soon to be in force for Morocco (Press Release)
PRESS RELEASE INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION - MOROCCO JOINS THE HAGUE CONVENTION The Hague Conference is pleased to receive advice that Morocco has acceded to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Morocco is the eighty-second State to become a Party to the 1980 Hague Convention and is the first North African State to do so....
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...
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...
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...
Information Note - Haiti earthquake and intercountry adoption of children
Information Note to States and Central Authorities Haiti earthquake and intercountry adoption of children The Secretariat of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (the Hague Conference), noting with great concern the tragic situation in Haiti and the high number of children victims of the recent earthquake, would like to make the following information available to governments,...
Dominican Republic joins 1996 Protection of Children Convention
On 14 December 2009, the Dominican Republic deposited its instrument of accession to the Hague Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children. The Convention will enter into force for the Dominican Republic on 1 October 2010. ...