From November 7, 2023, for the legalization of documents drawn up in China and for submission in China, it will be enough to affix an apostille instead of full consular legalization
On March 8, 2023, the Chinese Ambassador to the Netherlands
signed a document on China's accession to the
Hague Convention of October 5, 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Consular Legalization for Foreign Public Documents (Apostille Convention).The Hague Convention (Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, Convention du 5 October 1961 supprimant l'exigence de la légalisation des actes publics étrangers) is an international Convention that abolishes the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents for countries party to the Convention , was signed in 1961 by more than 60 countries, including Russia.
China has been a member of the Hague Conference since 1987, but for a long time did not ratify the Apostille Convention, and thus it was the largest country in the world that did not have a simplified document legalization procedure.
The instrument of ratification signed by China enters into force for China on November 7, 2023.
Until this date, foreign documents for China, as well as documents drawn up in China for other countries, still have to go through the full consular legalization procedure. Documents legalized in this way will retain their legal force after November 7, 2023 (since affixing an apostille according to the Hague Convention is a simplification of the full procedure, the full legalization procedure will still be valid and can be applied).
However, until September 7, 2023, the countries participating in the convention may object to the application of the simplified procedure for official documents of the China. At the same time, we hope that Russia will not express such objections.
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