New documents are available for the annual HCCH governance meeting (incl. Recommended Form under the new HCCH Judgments Convention and an Info. Doc. on the interrelationship between the HCCH and the UN Sustainable Development Goals)

The annual governance meeting of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) will take place from 3 to 6 March 2020. The list of documents that have been submitted to the HCCH governance body (i.e. the Council on General Affairs and Policy) is available here.

Recent documents that have not yet been mentioned in this
blog that are worthy of note are the following:

• Recommended
  Form under the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of
  Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (Prel. Doc. 4 of December
  2019 –for approval) –  drafted by the Permanent
  Bureau (PB) of the HCCH which “was in constant consultation with the Chair of
  the Drafting Committee, the Chair of the Commission on Judgments, and Members
  interested in this particular issue.” The PB took forms contained in international
  and regional instruments into account, including Brussels Ia Regulation.
• Development
  of the Legal Guide to Uniform Legal Instruments in the area of international
  commercial contracts (with a focus on sales) (Prel. Doc. 16 of January 2020
  – for info only)
• Overview
  of the findings of the Experts’ Group on cross-border recognition and
  enforcement of agreements in family matters involving children in relation to
  the development of a normative instrument (Info. Doc. 2 of January 2020 –
  for info only)
• The
  HCCH and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Info. Doc. 3 of
  January 2020 – for info only)

A few meetings of the Special Commission (i.e. global meetings of experts) to
review the practical operation of HCCH Conventions are in the pipeline and have
been submitted for approval to Council concerning the following Conventions: the
HCCH Apostille Convention, the HCCH Adults Convention, the HCCH Child Support
Convention and the HCCH Maintenance Obligations Protocol. For the last three,
if approved, it will be the first global meeting ever on their practical
operation. See Prel. Docs 9, 10 and 12.

Participation in these meetings is restricted, as they are open only to delegates or experts designated by the Members of the HCCH, invited non-Member States and International Organisations that have been granted observer status.