V Enforcement law By Nicolas cayrol, Professor at the François-Rabelais University of Tours A. The acquis The EU regulations in the field of debt recovery procedures are now fairly well-developed1. They are intended to facilitate the recovery of debts within the EU by offering creditors procedures and means to overcome the practical and legal difficulties linked to the coexistence of the principle by which a court judgment can only be enforced within the territory of the state concerned with the national divisions within the EU. Certain texts endeavour to make enforcement in other EU Member States easier (1). Other, more recent, texts put in place mechanisms intended to encourage debtors to pay their creditor(s) voluntarily (2). 1. The enforcement of orders in other EU Member States Two complementary methods have been implemented: the first makes it easier for courts to have national instruments and orders sent from one EU Member State to another; in the second, orders that are enforceable without any formalities throughout the whole of the EU, are created at the outset. a) Communication of national instruments and orders from one EU Member State to another This is the subject of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on 1. Developed after judicial cooperation in civil matters was the "communitised" in the Treaty of Amsterdam. Now see Art. 81 TFEU. 307