# 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 27: Reference implementation software

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

1. The Commission shall be responsible for the creation, maintenance and future development of reference implementation software which Member States may choose to apply as their back-end system instead of a national IT system. The creation, maintenance and future development of the reference implementation software shall be financed from the general budget of the Union.
2. The Commission shall provide, maintain and support on a free-of-charge basis implementation of the software components underlying the access points.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1784/article/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1784/article-27
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