# Regulation (EU) 2020/1784 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2020 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents) (recast), Article 2: Definitions

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

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
(1) ‘forum Member State’ means the Member State in which the judicial proceedings take place;
(2) ‘decentralised IT system’ means a network of national IT systems and interoperable access points, operating under the individual responsibility and management of each Member State, that enables the secure and reliable cross-border exchange of information between the national IT systems.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1784/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1784/article-2
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