Cross-border recognition of adoptions

The European Added Value Assessment (EAVA) presents a qualitative analysis of possible policy options and quantitative estimates on the possible additional value of taking legislative action on the EU level related to cross-border recognition of adoptions. The EAVA identifies economic and social costs, and notably the costs related to the incomplete protection of rights of mobile EU citizens, which are born as a result of the absence of regulation on automatic recognition of adoption decisions at the EU level.

The substantive scope of the EAVA is limited to the issues related to the recognition of adoptions in EU Member States. The substantive family law issues, as well as issues related to the recognition of convention adoptions, within the meaning of the 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry adoptions, are not covered in this assessment.

Author: Tatjana Evas

• Primary Source

European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, June 2016: Cross-border recognition of adoptions http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2016/581384/EPRS_STU(2016)581384_EN.pdf

ESO: Background information: Council of Europe and European Commission urge European countries to take steps to ensure the best interests of the child in adoption procedures http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-council-of-europe-and-european-commission-urge-european-countries-to-take-steps-to-ensure-the-best-interests-of-the-child-in-adoption-procedures/

ESO: Background information: Briefing: Adoption of children in the European Union, June 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/adoption-of-children-in-the-european-union/

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