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Jan 18, 2013 (Newsletter Issue 1/13)
Uruguay
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Accession to the Hague Apostille


The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, known as the Apostille Convention, has entered into force on October 14, 2012 in Uruguay.

Uruguay deposited its instrument of accession to the Hague Convention in February, and thus became the 103rd Contracting State.
With this addition, currently the Latin-American countries members of the Apostille Treaty are: Argentina, Belize, Costa Rica, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The Apostille Convention is a method that simplifies the legalization of foreign documents in order to verify its authenticity, reducing time and costs.
Section 1 of the Apostille Treaty establishes that the Convention applies to the following public documents: court documents, administrative documents, documents issued by a notary and official certifications in documents signed by private persons.

Source: Moeller IP Advisors, Argentina