38However, the other provisions of the Regulation, the objective noted in the second and sixth to ninth recitals in its preamble of ensuring that documents are transmitted rapidly and efficiently and the practical effect which must be accorded to the possibility, provided for in Articles 5 and 8 of the Regulation, of not having the document translated into the official language of the State addressed, justify precluding nullity of the document where it has been refused by the addressee on the ground that it is not in that language or in a language of the Member State of transmission which the addressee understands and, on the other hand, accepting the possibility of remedying the lack of translation.
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