this is where the debtor has not opposed the claim during judicial proceedings or has expressly agreed that the claim exists and is justified during judicial proceedings. This may take the form of an out-of-court settlement or an authentic instrument;
The abolition of exequatur for uncontested claims should feature among the Community's priorities.
The substance of the concept of "uncontested claims" will be specified when the limits of the instruments drawn up in application of the programme are defined. At present, that concept generally covers situations in which a creditor, given the verifiable absence of any dispute by the debtor over the nature or extent of the debt, has obtained an enforcement order against that debtor.
