The request for an appearance shall indicate specifically on what matter and by virtue of what title or qualification the official will appear as witness or as expert.

The same will apply when the person concerned, having been duly served with the summons to appear, elected not to do so nor to ask for adjournment.

This time shall be taken into account when the date of appearance is being fixed and when the summons is being transmitted.

A witness or expert who has failed to answer a summons to appear, service of which has been requested, shall not, even if the summons contains a notice of penalty, be subjected to any punishment or measure of restraint, unless subsequently he voluntarily enters the territory of the requesting Party and is there again duly summoned.

If the requesting Party considers the personal appearance of a witness or expert before its judicial authorities especially necessary, it shall so mention in its request for service of the summons and the requested Party shall invite the witness or expert to appear.

Any Contracting Party may, by a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, when signing this Convention or depositing its instrument of ratification or accession, request that service of a summons on an accused person who is in its territory be transmitted to its authorities by a certain time before the date set for appearance.

Authorities sending a postal summons to appear shall ensure that this does not involve a notice of penalty.

Experts or witnesses who have failed to answer a summons to appear sent to them by post shall not, even if the summons contains a notice of penalty, be subjected to any punishment or measure of constraint, unless subsequently they voluntarily enter into the territory of the requesting Party and are there again duly summoned.

judgments and orders by judicial authorities and bodies, and (b) generally, documents such as originating applications to the courts and steps in appellate proceedings, such as EN applications to set aside a judgment by default, appeals, applications for retrial or review, proceedings brought by parties or others against extra-judicial and judicial acts, intervention in legal proceedings, notifications and citations, summonses to preparatory inquiries, summonses to further hearings, notification of witnesses, etc.

Data on witnesses, persons summoned to appear before the judicial authorities in connection with criminal proceedings in order to account for acts for which they are being prosecuted, or persons who are to be served with a criminal judgment or a summons to report in order to serve a penalty involving deprivation of liberty shall be entered, at the request of the competent judicial authorities, for the purposes of communicating their place of residence or domicile.

Failure to appear at the hearing by one of the parties, by both of them or by any of the participants shall not impede the further conduct of the court proceedings.

The summons shall contain a warning to the efiect that the claims of creditors who fail to appear at the hearing shall be regarded as providing for the payment of such amounts as are demonstrated by court fifes and land register data, and that after the hearing for distribution the contestation of the existence, amount or order of precedence of other creditors' claims shall be precluded.