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Taking evidence (recast)

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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.

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.

Sweden
Taking Evidence
mandatory input

Article 2(1) – Authorities that can be considered as courts

Not applicable.

Article 3(2) – Requested courts

District courts

Article 4 – Central body

Ministry of Justice

Division for Criminal Cases and International Judicial Co-operation (BIRS)

Central Authority

S-103 33 Stockholm

Tel.: + 46 8 405 45 00

Fax: + 46 (0) 8 405 46 76

Contact email: ju.birs@gov.se

Article 6 – Languages accepted for completion of the forms

In addition to Swedish, English may be used to complete the form in Annex I.

Article 7 – Means accepted for transmission of requests and other communications

Not applicable.

Article 19 – Central body or competent authority(ies) responsible for decisions on requests for direct taking of evidence

Ministry of Justice

Division for Criminal Cases and International Judicial Co-operation (BIRS)

Central Authority

S-103 33 Stockholm

Tel.: + 46 8 405 45 00

Fax: 46 (0) 8 405 46 76

Contact email: ju.birs@gov.se

Article 29 – Agreements or arrangements to which Member States are parties and which comply with the conditions in Article 29(2)

There are no remaining agreements.

Article 31(4) – Notification on the early use of the decentralised IT-system

Not applicable.

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