Summary
This regulation modernizes how EU courts cooperate to collect evidence in civil and commercial matters, focusing on digital communication and videoconferencing. 10 02.12.2020
Other
civil law
european union
information technology and data processing
Key points
- Implementation of a decentralized IT system based on e-CODEX to ensure secure and reliable cross-border exchange of judicial information.
- Encouragement of direct evidence collection through videoconferencing or other distance communication technologies for witnesses and experts.
- Guarantee that the digital nature of evidence does not prevent its recognition or affect its perceived quality in other Member States.
- Expansion of the definition of 'court' to include other competent national authorities, such as notaries or enforcement bodies.
Documents (PDFs)
RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters (taking of evidence) (recast)
REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1206/2001 of 28 May 2001 on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters
Cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters ***II
Cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters ***I
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