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Recognition & enforcement of court decisions

If a court has decided that someone must pay you an amount of money or undertake a particular action (judgment) and this has not happened or you have not received the money, you may want to ask the court to enforce the decision.

How to enforce a court decision

When a Court is involved in solving a dispute, there are two steps that must be ensured at the end of the process.  First, the Court must hand down a judgment and then the judgment needs to be enforced in practice.

European enforcement order

The Regulation (EC) No 805/2004 is a simple procedure that can be used for uncontested cross-border claims. This procedure allows a judgment in an uncontested claim delivered in one Member State to be easily recognised and enforced in another Member State.

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