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ChildONEurope European Network of National
Observatories on Childhood Roberta Ruggiero
ChildonEurope Secretariat
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ChildONEurope Web site www.childoneurope.org Of
ficially set up on 24 January 2003, after two
years of preparatory works in the context of the
Intergovernmental Group LEurope de lEnfance
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Permanent Intergovernmental Group LEurope de
lEnfance
Background EU does not have a specific
competence in childrens issues but many EU
policies and legislations have an impact on
children Aim - Increasing the opportunities
for Ministers and/or high-level government
officials to meet and exchange strategies,
viewpoints and best practices on childrens
issues in the context of EU policies and the UN
CRC. - Introducing of mainstreaming of childrens
policies and the rights of the child in all EU
policies
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Permanent Intergovernmental Group LEurope de
lEnfance

• Powers and procedures
• Informal meetings on a regular basis for
  EU-ministers and/or high-level officials holding
  responsibility for childhood policies organized
  by the Country holding the Presidency and falling
  outside the formal EU framework
• The Presidency holding the meeting can select
  the topic/s of discussion
• No adoption of binding declarations
• Relation with ChildONEurope
• LEurope de lEnfance maintains information
  exchange with ChildONEurope, may ask and give
  suggestions to ChildONEurope on the activities
  undertaken and the subjects dealt

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Permanent Intergovernmental Group LEurope de
lEnfance

• Topics discussed up today
• Child abuse
• Disable children
• Children participation
• Play and recreational activities
• Hearing procedures
• Child labour
• Integrated services for children

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• Relation with ChildONEurope
• LEurope de lEnfance maintains information
  exchange with ChildONEurope, may ask and give
  suggestions to ChildONEurope on the activities
  undertaken and the subjects dealt
• the Secretariat participates in the meetings of
  LEurope de lEnfance to report on the results of
  the survey carried out and the decisions taken at
  the Assemblies

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Membership
Members Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain
Associated Members Austria, Check Republic,
Germany, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Hungary,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak
Republic,Sweden, the Netherlands and United
Kingdom Not yet decided Malta, Slovenia
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Aims
exchange of knowledge and information on laws,
policies, programmes, statistics, studies,
research, best practices regarding childhood and
adolescence exchange of knowledge on methodology
and indicators in order to obtain comparability
of information comparative analysis on specific
subjects
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ChildONEurope current activities

• Working Issues
• National and intercountry adoption
• Updated report, seminar on post-adoption
• Child Abuse
• Updating the comparative report on national
  registration systems and elaboration of the
  report on national legislation and data
• Family mediation
• Comparative report on national and international
  legislation, statistical data and practices for
  Luxembourg Presidency
• CRC Committee concluding observations
• Comparative survey for Austrian Presidency