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  1. Cf., 56 AJIL (1962) p. 532.

  2. Cf., L.A.N.M. Barnhoorn, ‘The Bailiff and the Obligations of the State under Public International Law’, in E. Denters and N. Schrijver, eds., Reflections on International Law from the Low Countries (The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff 1998) pp. 473–488.

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  3. Trb. 1973 No. 43; ETS No. 74; 11 ILM (1972) p. 470.

  4. 22 ILM (1983) p. 292.

  5. 30 ILM (1991) p. 1563.

  6. Cf., L.A.N.M. Barnhoorn, ‘The Service of Process on a Foreign State’, in M. Sumampouw, et al., eds., Law and Reality (Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff 1992) pp. 9–17.

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  7. 15 ILM (1976) p. 95.

  8. Cf., Barnhoorn, op. cit. n. 6, at pp. 11–13.

  9. Trb. 1966 No. 91; 658 UNTS 163.

  10. Cf., P. Vlas in Burgerlijke Rechtsvordering, Verdragen, Betekeningsverdrag [Civil Procedure, Treaties, Convention on the Service Abroad], Art. 11, notes and Barnhoorn, op. cit. n. 6, at pp. 7–8.

  11. See Advocate-General Strikwerda in his advisory opinion to the case, CRW (1997) No. 189 under 14 there quoting Vlas, ibid., Art. 1, nt. 3.

  12. Cf., AJIL, op. cit. n. 1, at pp. 532–533.

  13. M.M. Whiteman, ed., Digest of International Law, Vol. 6 (Washington, US Government Printing Office 1968) p. 693.

  14. Cf., in this sense also the District Court of Rotterdam, 18 April 1996 in the case Van der Linden v. the United States of America, S&S 1996, 83, NIPR 1996, 446 and 28 NYIL (1997) p. 344 under para. 4; service ex Art. 4(8)).

  15. Even the mailing of a writ to the embassy is not allowed; however, in the case of M.K.B. van der Hulst v. the United States of America, the USA did not protest against the fact that the initiating petition (labour case) was mailed to the embassy, Supreme Court, 22 December 1989, NJ 1991, 70, note by P.J.I.M. de Waart, NIPR 1990, 321, 22 NYIL (1991) p. 379, also discussed by de Waart in 41 NILR (1994) pp. 115-125.

  16. H. Minkenberg v. the Federal Republic of Germany, 19 NYIL (1988) p. 436, nt. 21.

  17. Trb. 1960 No. 37, last amended by Art. 14 of the Agreement of 18 March 1993, Trb. 1993 No. 121.

  18. Trb. 1993 No. 121, p. 76.

  19. Trb. 1998 No. 124.

  20. Cf., District Court of Utrecht, 23 April 1992, KG 1993, 230, NIPR 1993, 311, 27 NYIL (1996) p. 320.

  21. Trb. 1951 No. 114, 200 UNTS p. 3.

  22. And sometimes excluded from the general regime of state immunity, cf., Art. 31 of the European Convention on State Immunity; for NATO immunities practice see R. Garnett in 46 ICLQ (1997) pp. 105–108.

  23. Cf., Kluwer, BurgerlijkeRechtsvordering, Art. 81, nt. 6 (Asser).

  24. Idem.

  25. Cf., P.A.M. Meijknecht, ‘Een verbeterde Europese regeling van betekening van stukken in het buitenland’ [A Better European Regulation of the Service of Documents Abroad], 104 De Gerechtsdeurwaarder (1994) p. 83; however, other time consuming problems might then arise with respect to claims against military officers, see, inter alia, S.H. Edwards v. Bureau Wijsmuller Scheepvaart Transport- en Zeesleepvaartmaatschappij, Court of Appeal of Amsterdam, 18 June 1987, S&S 1988, 55, NIPR 1987, 469, 20 NYIL (1989) p. 290.

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Barnhoorn, B. Netherlands Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of Private International Law. Neth Int Law Rev 45, 253–261 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165070X00000231

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