The authentication process of public documents issued or certified by an authority in the Czech Republic for their use abroad
For public documents which should be used in countries with which the Czech Republic did not conclude any bilateral and/or respective multilateral treaty exempting from the authentication and who are not Member States of the Hague Apostille Convention, the authentication of public documents is necessary in a form of the so-called super. The super legalisation of Czech courts’ documents or documents issued or certified by notaries is performed first by the Ministry of Justice, it is followed by a foreign representation authority (hereinafter “embassy”) of the state in which the document is intended to be used.
Given that the Czech Republic, Belgium and Luxembourg are parties to The Hague Convention abolishing the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents dated 5 October 1961 (see the notice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs No. 45/1999 Col.) any foreign document submitted for official purposes in these states must have an “Apostille” affixed to it.
An Apostille is authentication of a public document for the purpose of its use abroad. The authentication for documents issued or certified by an authority in the Czech Republic is granted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
The documents that are destined for use in Belgium must be translated into one of country's official languages:
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