Mongolia - Enforcement of Money Judgments

The acceptance and enforcement of a foreign court’s judgment in the territory of Mongolia are specified as, “the rule on enforcement of foreign and Mongolian court’s judgments, which shall be defined under the laws of Mongolia and any bilateral treaty or international convention to which Mongolia is a party.” Civil Procedure Code, Art. 194. In addition, the Law on Enforcement of Court Judgments, Article 116.1 states that regulations for enforcing the decision of foreign court, international court, and arbitration awards in the territory of Mongolia shall be determined by this Law and international treaties that Mongolia is a party. As of today, there is no law in Mongolia regulating the acceptance and enforcement of a foreign court’s money judgment, even as to foreign court’s judgment in general. The Mongolian Parliament has not adopted any such law. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s Decree № 9, issued on 28th February, 2008, has been applied in general (there are no articles related to foreign money judgments), under the name “Implementation of Mongolian International Treaties and Universally Accepted International Law and Principlesin Judicial Practice”. For example, under this Decree, “a foreign court’s judgment is understood as a final judgment of a case.”

When the courts of Mongolia implement or enforce a foreign court’s money judgment, which they rarely do, the courts must follow the provisions of the relevant Bilateral Treaty for Mutual Legal Assistance with the country of origin of the judgment, and the relevant articles from the Civil Procedure Code, Law on Enforcement of Court Judgment and the Supreme Court’s Decree No. 9.