Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records

Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records

Signed	8 September, 1976
Location	Vienna
Effective	July 30, 1983
Condition	5 ratifications
Parties	Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands (European territory), Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey
Depositary	Switzerland
Language	French

The Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records (French: Convention du 8 septembre 1976 relative à la délivrance d'extraits plurilingues d'actes de l'état civil ) is a multilateral convention, drafted by the International Commission on Civil Status which defines a uniform format for extracts on civil status (birth, marriage, death)^[1]. The convention was signed in Vienna 8 September 1976 by 12 European states, and entered into force 30 July 1983 upon the ratification of the 5th state. As of March 2011, the convention is in force in 20 European countries although the convention is open for accession of other countries.^[2]

Obligations

State parties are obliged to issue multilingual extracts on request and accept the abstracts of other countries and handle them not differently from national extracts: "they shall be handled without legislation or equivalent formality in the territory of each state". They should provide translations of basic items on status records (e.g. Death of the husband) for inclusion by the other state parties.

Format

Extracts are to be produced in the language of the issuing country, in French and one other language on the front with optional translations in the other deposited languages on the back.

References

1. ^ La Commission Internationale de l'État Civil (accessed 26 July 2010) Convention Text
2. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs (accessed 28 March 2011) Detailpage treaties