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I am with the rapporteur when she states that establishing a harmonised and standardised judicial area is a vitally important element in the advancement of European integration in the sphere of parental responsibility. This proposal is an interesting step in that direction. In fact, it aims to authorise the Member States to ratify or accede to the Hague Convention in the interest of the European Union, thereby overcoming the technical problem that only sovereign states may be parties to that Convention. The significance of this is that the Hague Convention relates to jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition, enforcement and cooperation in respect of parental responsibility and measures for the protection of children, and has already been the main inspiration for the future Council regulation on parental responsibility, which the Council is still debating.
I disagree with the rapporteur, however, when she seeks to base her arguments on Article 24(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Consideration of the child’s best interests should be invoked for its intrinsically high value, not because it is called for in a text which, in any case, lacks any legal value at present.
Nevertheless, since this is a matter of ensuring that, in all judicial decisions relating to children, the child’s best interests remain a primary consideration, I support the rapporteur’s proposals."@en1
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