EC EFTA Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters Lugano, 16 September 1988

Preamble

Title I - Scope

Title II - Jurisdiction

Title III - Recognition and Enforcement

Title IV - Authentic Instruments and Court Settlements

Title V - General Provisions

Title VI - Transnational Provisions

Title VII - Relationship to the Brussels Convention and to Other Conventions

Title VIII - Final Provisions

Protocol No. 1 on Certain Questions of Jurisdiction, Procedure and Enforcement

Protocol No. 2 On the Uniform Interpretation of the Convention Preamble

Protocol No. 3 on the Application of 57

Declaration by the Representatives of the Governments of the State Signatories to the Lugano Convention which are Members of the European Communities on Protocol No. 3 on the Application of Article 57 of the Convention

Declaration by the Representatives of the Governments of the States Signatories to the Lugano Convention which are Members of the European Communities

Declaration by the Representatives of the Governments of the States Signatories to the Lugano Convention which are Members of the European Free Trade Association

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EC EFTA Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters, Lugano, 16 September 1988

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EC EFTA Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters Lugano, 16 September 1988

Title II - Jurisdiction

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Article 20

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Where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State and does not enter an appearance, the court shall declare of its own motion that it has no jurisdiction unless its jurisdiction is derived from the provisions of this Convention.

151

The court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence, or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end.

152

The provisions of the foregoing paragraph shall be replaced by those of Article 15 of the Hague Convention of 15 November 1965 on the service abroad of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters, if the document instituting the proceedings or notice thereof had to be transmitted abroad in accordance with that Convention

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