Enforcement hub
Which foreign judgments are enforced in the Cyprus
This hub collects what is confirmed about enforcing foreign judgments in Cyprus, organised by the judgment's country of origin. Whether a judgment is enforced, and how, depends on the regime that applies between Cyprus and the state where the judgment was issued. Cyprus sets no separate limitation period for recognition applications in general. The filing fee follows a sliding scale by claim value, starting near 48 EUR for smaller claims. Both figures depend on the specific claim and should be checked against the current schedule at filing.
Index
Each entry below covers a single origin jurisdiction and the regime that applies to judgments issued there. The refusal page covers what happens when recognition is contested rather than granted.
- Judgments from the United Kingdom follow a different route since the UK left the EU civil justice framework that once linked it to Cyprus.
- Judgments from the United Arab Emirates sit outside any EU or common law reciprocity framework Cyprus applies elsewhere.
- Judgments from the United States have no treaty basis with Cyprus and rely on common law recognition instead.
- Judgments from Switzerland raise their own reciprocity questions, distinct from the EU member state pairs on this list.
- Judgments from Singapore fall outside the EU regimes and also depend on Cyprus common law recognition.
- Judgments from Germany move under the intra-EU regime that links Cyprus to other member states.
- The general enforcement hub sets out how these jurisdiction pairs are organised across all target countries.
- What happens when recognition is refused covers the grounds a Cyprus court can use to reject enforcement.