On Wednesday 13 February, MEPs adopted by 563 votes to 27, with 9 abstentions, the draft report drawn up by Sergio Gaetano Cofferati (S&D, Italy) on the electronic service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (see EUROPE 12031).
The key element of the Commission's proposal was to make it mandatory for courts to exchange documents electronically across borders by a “decentralised computer system composed of national computer systems interconnected by...