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- FINDING COMPETENT COURTS/AUTHORITIES
- Article 2(1) – Authorities that can be considered as courts
- Article 3(2) – Requested courts
- Article 4 – Central body
- Article 6 – Languages accepted for completion of the forms
- Article 7 – Means accepted for transmission of requests and other communications
- Article 19 – Central body or competent authority(ies) responsible for decisions on requests for direct taking of evidence
- Article 29 – Agreements or arrangements to which Member States are parties and which comply with the conditions in Article 29(2)
- Article 31(4) – Notification on the early use of the decentralised IT-system
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FINDING COMPETENT COURTS/AUTHORITIES
The search tool below will help you to identify court(s)/authority(ies) competent for a specific European legal instrument. Please note that although every effort has been made to ascertain the accuracy of the results, there may be some exceptional cases concerning the determination of competence that are not necessarily covered.
Article 2(1) – Authorities that can be considered as courts
Notaries are the other authorities for the purposes of Article 2(1) (in inheritance proceedings and in proceedings seeking to reconstitute a lost or destroyed legal instrument, such as a title deed (konanie o umorení listiny)).
Article 3(2) – Requested courts
The district courts (okresné súdy) or city courts (mestské súdy) in whose district the requested evidence is to be taken, with the following courts to be requested as specified below:
- for family law and civil status cases the competent court for all districts of Bratislava is the Bratislava II City Court (Mestský súd Bratislava II);
- for commercial cases the competent court for all districts of Bratislava and for the districts of Malacky and Pezinok is the Bratislava III City Court (Mestský súd Bratislava III);
- for other cases the competent court for all districts of Bratislava is the Bratislava IV City Court (Mestský súd Bratislava IV).
Article 4 – Central body
Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky)
International Private Law Division
Račianska ul. 71
813 11 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Telephone: (421) 2 888 91 111
Fax: (421) 2 888 91 604
E-mail: civil.inter.coop@justice.sk
web: https://www.justice.gov.sk
Language knowledge: Slovak, Czech and English
Article 6 – Languages accepted for completion of the forms
Slovak and Czech.
Article 7 – Means accepted for transmission of requests and other communications
The Slovak authorities accept requests in writing, in paper form.
Article 19 – Central body or competent authority(ies) responsible for decisions on requests for direct taking of evidence
Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic
International Private Law Division
Račianska ul. 71
813 11 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Tel.: (421) 2 888 91 111
Fax: (421) 2 888 91 604
E-mail: civil.inter.coop@justice.sk
Web: https://www.justice.gov.sk/
Article 29 – Agreements or arrangements to which Member States are parties and which comply with the conditions in Article 29(2)
Not applicable
Article 31(4) – Notification on the early use of the decentralised IT-system
Not applicable
Last update:
26/07/2024
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