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Reports on the Work of the Special Commission on the Operation of the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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International Legal Materials , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , March 1978 , pp. 312 - 332
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1978

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[The Special Commission on the Operation of the Convention of 15 November 1965 on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Document in Civil or Commercial Matters met at the Hague, November 21-2 5, 1977.

[The Report of the United States Delegation, submitted to the Secretary of State in February 1978, is followed by the Report prepared in December 1977 by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference. The Report of the Permanent Bureau starts at I.L.M. page 319 and has been reproduced in toto. Portions of the U.S. Delegation Report have been omitted. The omissions are indicated by ellipses.

[U.S. Department of Justice instructions for serving foreign judicial documents in the United States and processing requests for serving American judicial documents abroad appear at 16 I.L.M. 1331 (197” The Convention of November 15, 1965, together with reservations and declarations, appears at 16 I.L.M. 1339 (1977).

[The European Convention on the Service Abroad of Documents relatii to Administrative Matters, done at Strasbourg, November 24, 1977, appt at I.L.M. page 265.]

References

1/ The United States joined The Hague Conference in October 1964; see also Public Law 88-244, December 30, 1963, 77 Stat. 775.

2/ The Civil Division of the Department is responsible for discharging these responsibilities. 28 C.F.R. §0.49.

3/ No representatives attended from Barbados, Botswana, Fiji, Israel, Luxembourg, Malawi, Portugal and Turkey.

4/ See, e.g., Julen v. Larson, 25 C.A.3d 325, 101 Cal. Rptr. 796 (1972).