(Reference Office: D.G.IT. – Unit for the Protection of Italians Abroad and for International Judicial Cooperation)
- Guide to the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (Edition 2024)
- Code of Civil Procedure, Articles 142 and 143
- Legislative Decree No. 71 of February 3, 2011 – Organisation and Functions of Consular Offices
- Regulation (EU) 1784/2020 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents) (recast)
- The Hague Convention of November 15, 1965 on the Service Abroad of Documents in Civil and Commercial Matters
- Regulation (UE) 1783/2020 on cooperation between the courts of the Member States in the taking of evidence in civil or commercial matters
- The Hague Convention of 1970 on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters
- The Hague Convention of March 1, 1954 on civil procedure
- Bilateral conventions, where applicable