EP Workshop on cross-border adoption

1 December 2015

Workshop on Adoption: Cross-border legal issues - Hoofdinhoud

Brussel, het Atomium

datum 1 december 2015

plaats Brussel, België

aanwezigen (Tadeusz) Zwiefka, (Cecilia) Wikström, (Mairead) McGUINNESS, (Pavel) Svoboda e.a.

organisatie EP-Commissie Juridische zaken (JURI)

Policy Department Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs

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Adoption - Cross-border legal issues

Committee on Legal Affairs Committee on Petitions

Programme

Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15h00 - 18h30 - Room ASP 1E2

15:00 - 15:15 Opening remarks: Pavel SVOBODA, Chair of the Committee on legal affairs, and Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Chair of the Committee on petitions

1st session: Citizens' concerns and petitions on adoption cross-border

legal issues in the EU

Chair: Mairead McGUINNESS, EP Vice-President, European

Parliament Mediator for International Child Abduction

15:15 - 15:30 Report on the PETI fact-finding visit to the United Kingdom and adoption issues raised in the petitions received by the Committee

Cecilia WIKSTRÖM, Chair of the PETI fact-finding visit

15:30 - 15:45 Child Protection: Tensions Created by the Diversity of the Domestic Laws of EU Member States

The Rt Hon Sir Mathew THORPE, former Head of International Family Justice for England & Wales

15:45 - 16:00 The view of Ombudsmen for Children from the perspective of the Polish, European and international law

Pawet JAROS, former Children Ombudsman for Poland

16:00 - 16:30 Discussion

2nd session:

Cross-border recognition of adoptions

Chair:

Tadeusz ZWIEFKA, MEP, Committee on Legal Affairs, rapporteur for the legislative initiative report on Cross-border recognition of adoptions (2015/2086(INL)

16:30 - 16:45

Conflicts and Coordination of Family Statuses: Towards their Recognition within the EU?

Gian Paolo ROMANO, University of Geneva, Switzerland

16:45 - 17:00

Recognition of intercountry adoptions - practical operation of the 1993 Hague Convention

Laura MARTINEZ-MORA, Principal Legal Officer, Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law

17:00 - 17:15

Discussion

17:15 - 17:30

Cross-border recognition of domestic adoptions - obstacles to free movement

Ruth CABEZA, family law barrister, Member of the International Association of Family Lawyers, United Kingdom

17:30 - 17:45

Recognizing child protection measures in Middle Eastern legal systems as equivalents to adoption - a fresh look on Maghrebian kafala, Iranian sarparasti and Iraqi damm

Nadjma YASSARI, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

17:45 - 18:25

Discussion

18:25 - 18:30

Conclusions

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