SCHEDULE 4RESERVATIONS, DECLARATIONS AND STATEMENTS MADE BY THE PARTIES TO THE 1995 CONVENTION

PORTUGAL

Article 15

Portugal states that the following authorities shall be considered competent: (a) for the purposes of Articles 4 and 10, the competent judge of the Court of Appeal in whose district the person requested resides or is to be found at the time of the request; (b) for the purposes of Article 14, the Minister of Justice.