On 31 December 2025, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam acceded to the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, also known as the Apostille Convention. This was reported by the official website of the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
In 2025, the Israeli authorities introduced new requirements for repatriates’ documents, some of which concern the apostille procedure. This was reported by MUZMAG, citing lawyer Arthur Blaier.
France publishes clarifications on new apostille procedures with exceptions on the official portal of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) held an online brainstorming session on the electronic Apostille Programme (e-APP), according to the official HCCH website.
Spain is tightening the rules of international tax transparency, as well as introducing a special tax regime for investment funds in the real estate sector.
Since July 3, 2020 the accreditation body in Russia compares number and date of test reports of the accredited certification body with the data in the FGIS system entered by the laboratory. Such data is registered in the register of EAC conformity proofs.
The compliance with standards of the technical regulation is indispensable for the import of products subject to conformity to Russia and other member states of the Eurasian Economic Union.
