a. In the application of this Part, judgement means every decision

• - regardless of nomenclature - made in pursuance of judicial or jurisdictional procedures of the courts or any competent authority of any party.

b. Subject to the provisions of Article 30 of this Agreement, each contracting party shall recognize the judgements made by the courts of any other contracting party in civil cases including judgements related to civil rights made by penal courts and in commercial, administrative and personal statute judgements having the force of res adjudicata and shall implement them in its territory in accordance with the procedures stipulated in this Part, if the courts of the contracting party which made the said judgements are competent under the provisions of the rules of jurisdiction in force in the requested party, and if the legal system of the requested party does not retain for its courts or the courts of another party the exclusive competence to make such judgements.

c. The present Article shall not apply to: