ABSTRACT
The issue of recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments has not been uniformly regulated in Swedish private international law. In the area of civil and commercial law, Sweden is a party to several conventions according to which an applicant may have a foreign judgment enforced in Sweden. The most important treaties are the Brussels Convention 1968 and the Lugano Convention 1988. The Brussels Convention applies between European Union countries and the Lugano Convention applies in relations between European Union and European Free Trade Association countries. According to Article 31.I, a judgment given in a Contracting State and enforceable in that state shall be enforced in another Contracting State when, on application of a party, it has been declared enforceable there. An application for the enforcement of a foreign judgment is directed exclusively to the Svea Court of Appeal as Article 32 provides and the application may be sent to the following address: Svea Hovrätt, Box 2290, 103 17 Stockholm.
