ADOPTED: Done at Luxembourg, on 25 October 1982

REFERENCE: OJEC 1983 L 388/82

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 1 April 1989

DEPOSITARY: Council of the European Union

SECRETARY: Council of the European Union

IMPLEMENTATION

SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION

Article XIV

This Convention shall be ratified by signatory States. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Communities.

ENTRY INTO FORCE

Article XV

This Convention shall enter into force, as between the States which have ratified it, on the first day of the third month following the deposit of the last instrument of ratification by the Hellenic Republic and those States which have put into force the 1978 Convention in accordance with Article XXXIX of that Convention.

It shall enter into force for each Member State which subsequently ratifies it on the first day of the third month following the deposit of its instrument of ratification.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Article XII

1. The 1968 Convention and the 1971 Protocol, as amended by the 1978 Convention and this Convention, shall apply only to legal proceedings instituted and to authentic instruments formally drawn up or registered after the entry into force of this Convention in the State of origin and, where recognition or enforcement of a judgement or authentic instrument is sought, in the State addressed.

2. However, judgements given after the date of entry into force of this Convention between the State of origin and the State addressed in proceedings instituted before that date shall be recognised and enforced in accordance with the provisions of Title III of the 1968 Convention, as amended by the 1978 Convention and this Convention, if jurisdiction was founded upon rules which accorded with the provisions of Title II of the 1968 Convention, as amended, or with the provisions of a Convention which was in force between the State of origin and the State addressed when the proceedings were instituted.