On Tuesday, 3 December, the European Ministers of Justice reached political agreement (a 'general approach') on the regulation on digitising cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence and on the regulation on the service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters by electronic means (see EUROPE B12031A12).
The key change introduced by the draft regulation is to make it compulsory for courts to exchange documents electronically...