The Hague choice of court convention, formally the Convention of 30 June 2005 on Choice of Court Agreements, is an international treaty concluded within the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
Albania, the European Union (covering the European territory of all member states except Denmark), Denmark, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Singapore, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom[a] are parties to the convention.
[2] China, Israel, Kosovo, North Macedonia and the United States signed the convention, but did not ratify.
As the negotiators were not able to come to a consensus on such a convention, the scope of the work was reduced to jurisdiction and recognition of decisions based on a choice of court agreement between the parties.
During the negotiations parallels were drawn between the New York Convention on arbitral awards: the aim was to create a system of recognition of decisions based on court cases where the court was chosen pursuant to a choice of court agreements, which would create the same level of predictability and enforceability as is the case in arbitral awards in New York Convention states.