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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1823/annex-I/division-3/division-7",
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  "legislation": "eur/2016/1823",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1823 of 10 October 2016 establishing the forms referred to in Regulation (EU) No 655/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Account Preservation Order procedure to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1823",
  "path": "annex/I/division/3/division/7",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Request for the obtaining of account information",
  "text": "If you have no information about the bank with which the debtor holds one or more accounts, nor any account number, and you have already obtained, in a Member State, an enforceable judgment, court settlement or authentic instrument that requires the debtor to pay your claim, you can ask the court to request that the information authority of the Member State where you have reason to believe one or more accounts of the debtor is/are located attempt to obtain the necessary information.\nPlease note that you can only make a request to obtain account information for accounts maintained in a Member State to which Regulation (EU) No 655/2014 applies. This is currently not the case for Denmark and the United Kingdom.\nAs a general rule, the request for the obtaining of account information is available for judgments, court settlements or authentic instruments that are already enforceable.\nWhere the judgment, court settlement or authentic instrument is not yet enforceable, a request for the obtaining of account information can only be made if additional conditions are fulfilled. Pursuant to Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) No 655/2014 those conditions are the following: the amount to be preserved must be substantial taking into account the relevant circumstances and the creditor must have submitted sufficient evidence to satisfy the court that there is an urgent need for account information because there is a risk that, without the account information, the subsequent enforcement of the creditor's claim against the debtor is likely to be jeopardised and that this could lead to a substantial deterioration of the creditor's financial situation. If you fulfill those conditions, please provide the relevant information in point 10.2.\nIt is important that you substantiate in your request why you have reason to believe that the debtor holds one or more accounts in a particular Member State and that you provide the court with all relevant information available to you about the debtor and the account or accounts to be preserved. Please note that this procedure may take some time and you could be charged a fee for the information.\nIf you want to preserve accounts in more than one Member State, please provide the information below for each Member State concerned (when filling in the form on paper, please use separate sheets and number each page).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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