Civil and commercial judicial cooperation: implementation of Article 5(2) of the EC/Denmark Agreement on the service of judicial and extrajudicial documents

The Council adopted two decisions to establish procedures which aim at clarifying how the Community is to express its agreement to the participation by Denmark in international agreement concluded by the Community on two judicial matters:

• on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters; and
• on the service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters.

Denmark can decide whether to take part in such international agreements concluded by the Community or not. But, so far, there have been no procedures to allow the Community to rapidly consent to such a Danish decision.