CIEC Conventions

Civil status documents and certificates of no impediment (for marriage) issued by one of the Contracting States following the model contained in the International Commission on Civil Status Conventions (CIEC) are exempt from any requirements relating to form in Germany.

States parties to the Convention of 8 September 1976 (on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records, birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates) are:
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

States parties to the Convention of 5 September 1980 (on the issuance of (multilingual) certificates of matrimonial capacity) are:
Austria, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.