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The Department of Justice is designated as the Central Authority to receive Letters of Request coming from a judicial authority of another Contracting State and to transmit them to the authority competent to execute them.

Context

Executive Order 11698—Relating to the Implementation of the Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters

01/18/1973

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