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[translation of the Permanent Bureau] (In the relations between the Contracting States, this Convention replaces the Convention of 17 July 1905 on civil procedure) CONVENTION ON CIVIL PROCEDURE (Concluded 1 March 1954) The States signatory to the present Convention; Desiring to make in the Convention of 17th July 1905, on civil procedure, the improvements suggested by experience; Have resolved to conclude a new Convention to this effect, and have agreed upon the following provisions - I. COMMUNICATION OF JUDICIAL AND EXTRAJUDICIAL DOCUMENTS Article 1 In civil or commercial matters, the service of documents addressed to persons abroad shall be effected in the Contracting States on request of a consul of the requesting State, made to the authority which shall be designated by the State addressed. The request, specifying the authority originating the document forwarded, the names and capacities of the parties, the address of the addressee, and the nature of the document in question, shall be in the language of the requested authority. This authority shall send to the consul the certificate showing service or indicating the fact which prevented it. All difficulties which may arise in connection with the consul#39;s request shall be settled through diplomatic channels. Any Contracting State may declare, in a communication addressed to the other Contracting States, that it intends that requests for service to be effected on its territory, giving the specifications mentioned in the first paragraph, be addressed to it through diplomatic channels. The foregoing provisions shall not prevent two Contracting States from agreeing to allow direct communication between their respective authorities. Article 2 Service shall be effected by the authority which is competent according to the laws of the State addressed. That authority, except in the cases mentioned in Article 3, may confine itself to serving the document by delivery to an addressee w