45Article 30 of the Lugano II Convention defines the date on which a court is deemed to be seised for the purposes of the application of Section 9 of Title II of that convention as being the date on which the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document is lodged with the court, provided that the plaintiff has not subsequently failed to take the steps he was required to take to have service effected on the defendant; if the document has to be served before being lodged with the court at the time when it is received by the authority responsible for service, provided that the plaintiff has not subsequently failed to take the steps he was required to take to have the document lodged with the court.
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