Links to some relevant foreign Internet pages are listed below.

In addition, the list includes links to international organisations within which conventions on international legal assistance have been concluded.

Links

The addresses below contain information on the national legal assistance system of each country.

Sweden: www.regeringen.se/sb/d/1915/a/12484

Great Britain: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Look under A – Z index for Extradition and mutual legal assistance and Judicial Cooperation Unit (JCU)

Switzerland: www.ofj.admin.ch/
After having chosen English click on Terms of Reference and Organisation. Choose thereafter Division for International Legal Assistance.

Italy: www.giustizia.it
Click on Informazioni and choose English. Look under Extradition Orders or International Rogatory Letters.

Estonia: oigusabi.just.ee

EU provisions are found in the address http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm.

The conventions of the Council of Europe, their ratification situation, memoranda and summaries of the conventions are found of the Council Internet pages in the address conventions.coe.int.

For instance the ratification situation of conventions is found on the Internet pages of the Council of the European Union in the address www.consilium.europa.eu/en under entries such as extradition, mutual assistance and Schengen.

Information about agreements on criminal cooperation, reservations submitted by states and memoranda are found on the Internet pages of the European Judicial Network in criminal matters in the address www.ejn-crimjust.europa.eu/.

The website of the European Judicial Network in civil matters contains information about the Member States, Community law, European law and various aspects of civil and commercial law.

Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings: forms.

The conventions of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, memoranda and the ratification situation are found on the Conference Internet pages in the address www.hcch.net.

Foreign legislation

Links to foreign legislation have been listed inter alias by the Institute for Legal Informatics of Lapland University in the address www.ulapland.fi/home/oiffi/index.asp.

Nordic legislation is found for instance in these addresses:

Finland
http://www.finlex.fi/en/.
(including translations)

Sweden
http://www.riksdagen.se/templates/R_SubStartPage____5029.aspx

Denmark
www.retsinfo.dk/

Norway
www.lovdata.no/all/index.html

Estonian legislation is found in the addresses:
www.riigiteataja.ee (requires registration but is free of charge)
www.legaltext.ee/endefault.htm

Updated on 7 January 2010