Assistance in address enquiries
Article 7
1. Where the address of the person to be served with the judicial or extrajudicial document in another Member State is not known, that Member State shall provide assistance in determining the address in, at least, one of the following ways: (a) providing for designated authorities to which transmitting agencies may address requests on the determination of the address of the person to be served; (b) allowing persons from other Member States to submit requests, including electronically, for information about addresses of persons to be served directly to domicile registries or other publicly accessible databases by means of a standard form available on the European e-Justice Portal; or (c) providing detailed information, through the European e-Justice Portal, on how to find the addresses of persons to be served. 2. Each Member State shall provide the Commission with the following information with a view to making it available through the European e-Justice Portal: (a) the means of assistance which the Member State will provide in its territory pursuant to paragraph 1; (b) where applicable, the names and contact details of the authorities referred to in points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1; (c) whether the authorities of the Member State addressed submit, on their own initiative, requests to domicile registries or other databases for information about addresses in cases where the address indicated in the request for service is not correct. Member States shall notify the Commission of any subsequent modification of the information referred to in the first subparagraph.