1961 international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law
"Apostille" redirects here. Not to be confused with Apostle or Apostil.
Apostille Convention
Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents
In force
Ratified but not yet in force
Signed
5 October 1961 (1961-10-05)
Location
The Hague, Netherlands
Effective
24 January 1965
Condition
Ratification by 3 signatories[1]
Parties
126
Depositary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Languages
French (prevailing in case of divergence) and English
Full text
Apostille Convention at Wikisource
The Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, also known as the Apostille Convention, is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). The Apostille Convention is intended to simplify the procedure through which a document, issued in one of the contracting states, can be certified for legal purposes in the other contracting states of the Convention. A certification under the Convention is called an apostille or Hague apostille (from French apostille, meaning a marginal or bottom note, derived from Latin post illa, meaning "after those [words of the text]").[2] An apostille is an international certification comparable to a notarisation, and may supplement a local notarisation of the document. If the Convention applies between two states, an apostille issued by the state of origin is sufficient to certify the document, and removes the need for further certification by the destination state.
^"Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents". Hague Conference on Private International Law. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
^"Apostille Handbook" (PDF). Hague Conference on Private International Law. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2022.
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