Editing Jurisdiction (section)

===Supranational===
At a supranational level, countries have adopted a range of treaty and convention obligations to relate the right of individual litigants to invoke the jurisdiction of national courts and to enforce the judgments obtained. For example, the [[member state|member nation]]s of the [[European Economic Community|EEC]] signed the [[Brussels Regime|Brussels Convention]] in 1968 and, subject to amendments as new nations joined, it represents the default law for all twenty-seven Member States of what is now termed the [[European Union]] on the relationships between the courts in the different countries. In addition, the [[Brussels Regime|Lugano Convention]] (1988) binds the European Union and the [[European Free Trade Association]].

In effect from 1 March 2002, all the [[European Union member state]]s except [[Denmark]] accepted [[Brussels Regime|Council Regulation (EC) 44/2001]], which makes major changes to the Brussels Convention and is [[direct effect|directly effective]] in the member nations. Council Regulation (EC) 44/2001 now also applies as between the rest of the EU Member States and Denmark due to an agreement reached between the European Community and Denmark.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2005:299:0062:0070:EN:PDF |title=Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Denmark on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters | series=Official Journal of the European Union |date=November 16, 2005 |website=EUR-Lex |access-date=2012-10-29 |archive-date=2019-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404171618/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2005:299:0062:0070:EN:PDF |url-status=dead }}</ref> In some legal areas, at least, the reciprocal [[enforcement of foreign judgments]] is now more straightforward. At a national level, the traditional rules still determine jurisdiction over persons who are not [[domicile (law)|domiciled]] or habitually resident in the European Union or the Lugano area.