Do I need an apostille to use a Cyprus public document in another EU country?

The Regulation covers public documents whose main purpose is to establish birth, being alive, death, name, marriage, divorce, registered partnership, parenthood, adoption, domicile or residence, nationality, or the absence of a criminal record, plus documents needed to vote or stand in European or municipal elections. Those documents, and certified copies of them, are exempt from legalisation and from the apostille. The person entitled to the document can ask the issuing authority for a multilingual standard form to attach to it; the form is a translation aid and has no value of its own.

Documents about a company's existence, officers or representation are outside the Regulation, which only asked the Commission to review whether to add them. For those, the apostille from the Ministry of Justice and Public Order still applies, and the receiving authority may still want a certified translation. The Regulation also does not decide whether the receiving country accepts what the document says; that stays with that country's own rules.

We check what the receiving authority wants before anything is stamped, because the order of stamp and translation cannot be undone.

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