The Civil Status Service will issue multilingual extracts from civil status records, as the applicants won’t have to certify their translation. Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin has signed into force the Law on Moldova joining Convention on the issue of multilingual extracts from civil status records, Info-Prim Neo reports. The multilingual extracts will be valid in the following countries: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Poland and Montenegro. According to officials from the Information Development Ministry, the signatory states will insert the translations of the formulas and invariable symbols into the official languages of the new joining states into the forms of multilingual extracts. As a result, Moldova’s joining the Convention will lead to editing the multilingual extracts in its official language. The Convention was signed in Vienna on September 8, 1976, in order to institute a common regulating frame on issuing extracts from civil status records destined to be used abroad and to abolish the condition to certify these records.