SWEDEN Trends and Developments Contributed by: Jerker Kjellander, Matilda Kronqvist and Selma Beganovic, Vinge
ments. The 2019 Hague Convention resembles the 2005 Hague Convention in many ways, and shares the same overarching goals, although the 2019 Hague Convention aims to extend these goals to cover legal relationships not characterised by exclusive choice of court agreements. The Convention’s aim is to support predictability and security in the global circulation of judgments arising from cross-border trade and investments through legal co-operation and uniform rules, rounding out existing international instruments, particularly the 2005 Hague Convention and the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. According to the 2019 Hague Convention, a judgment rendered in one convention state must be enforced in another convention state in accordance with the pro - visions of the Convention, provided that the judgment is enforceable in the originating country. Enforcement may only be refused on the grounds specified in the Convention.
Other than the 2005 Hague Conventio§n, Swedish law lacks earlier international instruments regulating the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in the area covered by the 2019 Hague Convention, outside the EU and EFTA. Generally, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Sweden require statutory support. The 2019 Hague Conven - tion will entail greater possibilities for recognition and enforcement of decisions for Sweden in relation to third countries, as the Convention provides the frame - work for the global circulation of judgments that has been lacking in the field. Given the 2019 Hague Convention’s recent entry into force and its temporal limitation to proceedings com - menced after that date, how key provisions will be applied in practice will become clear as the first wave of enforcement decisions emerges.
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