Source: https://www.hcch.net/es/states/authorities/details3/?aid=255
Timestamp: 2019-09-22 04:35:30
Document Index: 752352802

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 3', 'Art. 5', 'Art. 12', 'Art. 5', 'Art. 10', 'Art. 10', 'Art. 10', 'Art. 10', 'Art. 21']

Unit for International Judicial Cooperation
General website: https://oikeusministerio.fi/en/frontpage
https://oikeusministerio.fi/en/service-of-documents
Contact person: Ms Maija Leppä, Legal adviser
(Art. 3(1)): The forwarding authorities are the district courts (käräjäoikeus), the Market Court (Markkinaoikeus), the courts of appeal (hovioikeus), the Supreme Court (Korkein oikeus) and the Ministry of Justice.
Service of notices – Finnish Courts: https://oikeus.fi/en/index/oikeuslaitos/tiedoksiantaminen.html.
European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters – Service of documents – Finland: https://e-justice.europa.eu/content_service_of_documents-371-fi-en.do?init=true&member=1
(Art. 5(3)): A translation is not required; however, if the addressee does not accept a document in a foreign language, service can only be effected if the document is translated into one of the official languages of Finland, i.e. Finnish or Swedish, or if the addressee must be deemed to understand the foreign language. Companies with international business relations must be deemed to understand English, German or French.
(Art. 12): Service of documents effected by virtue of a request for legal assistance is free of charge. Finland applies the principle of non-payment of fees to all methods for service provided in Art. 5.
Finland has declared that its authorities are not obliged to assist in serving documents transmitted under Art. 10(b) and (c). In practice, if the service is effected, he requesting person has to pay the national fee of 80 Euros (March 2019).
Time for execution of request: The average time for the service of documents in Finland is about four weeks.
(Art. 10 (b)) Under Finnish legislation the only competent persons to effect service of a document are the process servers. They seldom receive requests from abroad under Art. 10(b). Finnish authorities are not obliged to assist in serving documents transmitted by using any of the methods referred to Art. 10(b) and (c) of the Convention.
(Art. 21(2)): (Click here to read all the Finnish declarations made under the Service Convention.)
Information may not be complete or fully updated – please contact the relevant authorities to verify this information. A multilateral convention on judicial co-operation was concluded between: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden on 26 April 1974.
Useful links: Act on International Judicial Assistance and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (Laki kansainvälisestä oikeusavusta sekä tuomioiden tunnustamisesta ja täytäntöönpanosta siviili- ja kauppaoikeuden alalla, 426/2015), available in Finnish and Swedish: https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2015/20150426.
Finlex Data Bank (an online database of up-to-date legislative and other judicial information of Finland): http://www.finlex.fi/en/
(This page was last updated on 25 March 2019)
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