EC Regulation on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgment (Brussels Regulation I and Recast Regulation)

Imagine that every State in India had its own rules on which court could hear a dispute, and its own tests on whether it would honour another State’s decree. A decree from Pune might be ignored in Nagpur. Europe faced that problem among its own countries, and solved it by agreeing a single set of rules. A judgment given in one member State is meant to travel to the others almost as easily as a decree from Pune would travel to Nagpur. The Brussels Regulation and its Recast are that agreement.

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The Brussels I Regulation (44/2001) and its Recast (1215/2012) give the European Union uniform rules on which member State’s court hears a civil or commercial dispute and on the automatic recognition and enforcement of judgments across member States.

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