# 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), Article 31: Documents to be produced for recognition

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. A party who wishes to invoke in a Member State a decision given in another Member State shall produce the following:
(a) a copy of the decision which satisfies the conditions necessary to establish its authenticity; and
(b) the appropriate certificate issued pursuant to Article 36.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1111/article/31 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1111/article-31
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