Points of law

The law provides the impossibility to carry out confiscations, distraints or executions over properties that belong to foreign States without the authorization of the Ministry of Justice.

Specific provision(s) of the law

N/a

Sources

Official Gazette, January 25, 1925, no. 223

Additional information (explanations, notes, etc.)

It is not possible to proceed to seizure of garnishment of, and to executive actions in general, on movables or immovable, ships, claims, stocks, valuables and whatever else a foreign State is entitled to possess without the authorisation of the Minister of Justice.

Proceedings underway cannot be continued without said authorisation.

The above provisions apply only to the States envisaging a reciprocity regime, declared by Ministerial decree.

Neither judicial remedy nor administrative claims can be filed against such degree, nor against those rejecting such authorisation.

See law July 15, 1926, no. 1263