Service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents)

 The committee adopted the report by Jean-Paul GAUZÈS (EPP-ED, FR) approving the proposal on the service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters. It adopted a few amendments (under the 1st reading of the codecision procedure) with a view to clarifying the text in places, particularly with regard to the translation of documents served to an addressee. MEPs specified inter alia that, where the addressee has exercised the option of refusing to accept a document at the time of service, documents subsequently served in the same case as a continuation of the procedure must be written in or translated into a language understood by the addressee or an official language of the receiving Member State.