Mexico - Central Authority & practical information

Central Authority(ies):

Directorate for International Procedural Cooperation
General Direction of Legal Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Dirección de Cooperación Procesal Internacional - Dirección General de Asuntos Jurídicos de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores)

Contact details:

Address: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores / Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dirección General de Asuntos Jurídicos / General Direction of Legal Affairs
Dirección de Cooperación Procesal Internacional / Directorate for International Procedural Cooperation
Plaza Juárez #20, Piso 5
Colonia Centro, Alcaldía Cuauhtémoc
C.P. 06010 Ciudad de México
México
Telephone: +52-55-3686-5100 Ext. 5235 & 6438
E-mail: dgajuridicos@sre.gob.mx
General website: https://www.gob.mx/sre
Contact person: Juan Bernardo Alonso López
Director de Cooperación Procesal Internacional / Director for International Procedural Cooperation
cartasrogatorias@sre.gob.mx

Nancy Rocío Alanis Arredondo
Head of Department for Procedural Cooperation
cartasrogatorias@sre.gob.mx
Languages spoken by staff: Spanish/English

 

Practical Information:

Forwarding authorities
(Art. 3(1)):
Judges and the General Direction of Legal Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (incl. its regional offices)
Methods of service:
(Art. 5(1)(2))
Personal service
Translation requirements:
(Art. 5(3))

In relation to Article 5, when the judicial and extrajudicial documents to be served in Mexican territory are written in a language other than Spanish, they must be accompanied by the corresponding Spanish translation.

Click here to read all the declarations and reservations made by Mexico under this Convention.

Costs relating to execution of the Request for service (Art. 12(2))

No cost.

Time for execution of request: From 2 to 6 months approximately.
Other Information: Filling the blanks of the forms in Spanish is most appreciated (see however Art. 7(2)).
Oppositions and declarations
(Art. 21(2)):
(Click here to read all the declarations and reservations made by Mexico under this Convention.)
Art. 8(2): Opposition (see declarations)
Art. 10: Opposition
Art. 15(2): Declaration of non-applicability
Art. 16(3): Declaration of applicability
Derogatory channels (bilateral or multilateral agreements or internal law permitting other transmission channels)
(Arts. 11, 19, 24 and 25)

Disclaimer:
Information may not be complete or fully updated - please contact the relevant authorities to verify this information.

To consult bilateral and multilateral treaties to which Mexico is a party, see: http://www.sre.gob.mx/tratados/.  

Multilateral conventions on judicial co-operation:
- Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory (Panama City, 13 January 1975).
- Additional Protocol to the Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory (Montevideo, 8 May 1979).
www.oas.org

Useful links: http://webapps.sre.gob.mx/rogatorias/ (track service for letters rogatory) (only in Spanish)
http://www.sre.gob.mx/index.php/tramites-y-servicios/exhorto-o-carta-rogatoria-internacional- (International letters rogatory) (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

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