DUSHANBE, February 22, 2015, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan has presented the document on accession to the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, commonly known as Apostille Convention, to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), according to the Tajik MFA information department.
Tajik Ambassador to the Netherlands Rustamjon Soliyev reportedly presented the document to the HCCN Secretary-General Christophe Bernasconi on February 20.
Tajik diplomat expressed confidence that Tajikistan’s accession to the Convention would promote improving investment climate in the country, ensuring legal guarantees for domestic and foreign investors and facilitate attraction of foreign investments for development of Tajikistan’s economy.
The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) is the preeminent organization in the area of private international law. The HCCH was formed in 1893 to “work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law.” It has pursued this goal by creating and assisting in the implementation of multilateral conventions promoting the harmonization of conflict of laws principles in diverse subject matters within private international law. The Conference has developed thirty-eight international conventions since its Statute was completed in 1951.
The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, the Apostille Convention, or the Apostille Treaty is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. It specifies the modalities through which a document issued in one of the signatory countries can be certified for legal purposes in all the other signatory states. Such a certification is called an apostille (French: certification). It is an international certification comparable to a notarization in domestic law, and normally supplements a local notarization of the document.
Replacing the traditionally lengthy legalization process with an authentication certificate, the Apostille Convention will help simplify the process of producing official documents abroad and give companies a high degree of legal certainty in cross-border situations.
