Enforcement hub

Which foreign judgments are enforced in the Switzerland

This hub indexes how Swiss courts treat foreign judgments by country of origin. Switzerland is not a party to the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention. Recognition instead runs through the Lugano Convention of 2007 for EU and EFTA judgments, or through domestic Swiss private international law for everything else.

Index

The pairs below share Switzerland as target but differ in treaty basis.

• Enforcement hub: routes into other target jurisdictions.
• UAE to Switzerland: no treaty, domestic law applies.
• US to Switzerland: same domestic-law route, no treaty.
• Cyprus to Switzerland: Lugano Convention, EU member state.
• Germany to Switzerland: Lugano applies, procedure differs.
• Spain to Switzerland: Lugano applies.
• Luxembourg to Switzerland: closes the Lugano set.
• Refusal type O8: the pattern behind non-payment claims.

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