With the EFFORTS Project, a consortium comprising the University of Milan (coord.), the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and the Universities of Heidelberg, Brussels VUB, Vilnius and Zagreb analyses the legislation and case-law of 7 EU Member States , promotes the exchange of practices among operators, and collects good practices, with a view to assessing the interaction of the EU Regulations on the recognition and enforcement of judgments with national legislation.