Enlargement of the European Directory of Bailiffs (Find a Bailiff II)

2026-07-22

Enlargement of the existing database of european bailiffs and judicial officers. This project aims at extending the directory of bailiffs/judicial officers to all the professionals of enforcement in the European Union countries: - To enhance existing cross-border cooperation between the parties involved in civil proceedings in Europe - To facilitate the access to justice for european citizen and firms, enabling them to identify the appropriate bailiff/judicial officer to implement the judicial procedures they are in charge of. - To improve the implementation of European regulations in force in civil and commercial matters, more specifically the regulation No 1393/2007on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters (service of documents, and the regulation No 655/2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order procedure to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters. - To enable European bailiffs/judicial officers, the courts, the banks and the lawyers to communicate via electronic platform, in the frame of the regulation No 655/2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order procedure to facilitate cross-border debt recovery in civil and commercial matters. The e-SENS consortium has been working on this regulation to guarantee that the transmission and the service of documents can be delivered securely from January 2017.

Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy

2026-01-15