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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1111/article-31",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/1111",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) 2019/1111 of 25 June 2019 on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, and on international child abduction (recast)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1111",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Documents to be produced for recognition",
  "text": "1. A party who wishes to invoke in a Member State a decision given in another Member State shall produce the following:\n(a) a copy of the decision which satisfies the conditions necessary to establish its authenticity; and\n(b) the appropriate certificate issued pursuant to Article 36.\n2. The court or competent authority before which a decision given in another Member State is invoked may, where necessary, require the party invoking it to provide a translation or transliteration, in accordance with Article 91, of the translatable content of the free text fields of the certificate referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article.\n3. The court or competent authority before which a decision given in another Member State is invoked may require the party to provide a translation or transliteration, in accordance with Article 91, of the decision in addition to a translation or transliteration of the translatable content of the free text fields of the certificate if it is unable to proceed without such a translation or transliteration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1111/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:16.133869+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}