Complex sentence: The procedure for legalizing a foreign document varies from country to country: the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents has supplanted this procedure with the use of the apostille in countries that are signatories to that convention.
Split into simpler sentences: The procedure for legalizing a foreign document varies from country to country. The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents has supplanted this procedure with the use of an apostille for countries that are signatories to that convention.