Council Decision (EU) 2015/2355 of 10 December 2015 authorising certain Member States to accept, in the interest of the European Union, the accession of the Russian Federation to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

1 The Member States that have not yet done so are hereby authorised to accept the accession of the Russian Federation to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (‘the 1980 Hague Convention’) in the interest of the Union.

2 Member States referred to in paragraph 1 shall, no later than 11 December 2016, deposit a declaration of acceptance of the accession of the Russian Federation to the 1980 Hague Convention in the interest of the Union worded as follows: ‘[Full name of MEMBER STATE] declares that it accepts the accession of the Russian Federation to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, in accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2015/2355’

3 Each Member State shall inform the Council and the Commission of the deposit of its declaration of acceptance of the accession of the Russian Federation and communicate to the Commission the text of the declaration within two months of its deposit.

Those Member States which deposited their declarations of acceptance of the accession of the Russian Federation to the 1980 Hague Convention prior to the date of adoption of this Decision, shall not deposit new declarations.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Decision is addressed to all Member States with the exception of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Republic of Estonia, Ireland, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of Lithuania, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovak Republic and the Republic of Finland.