Romanian Office for Adoptions suggests lifting some restrictions imposed on international adoptions
Romanian Office for Adoptions suggests lifting some restrictions imposed on international adoptions
25 Martie 2010Information in English
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The Romanian Office for Adoptions suggested lifting some restrictions imposed on international adoptions and expects the Government and Parliament to approve this step, Bogdan Panait, Secretary of State of this institution, told Radio France International on Tuesday.
Bogdan Panait said on this occasion that he wanted fourth-degree relatives and the mixed families abroad to be allowed to adopt children from Romania. „At present adoption can be made by up to third-degree relatives. We made it in such a way that relatives up to the fourth degree and Romanian citizens married to foreign citizens can adopt children from Romania,” said Bogdan Panait.
When asked about the chances of this initiative, Bogdan Panait said it was „a suggestion made by the Office.” „It goes without saying that it will be submitted for approval and then things will be clearer, but for the time being this is the suggestion we made as we started from real and often controversial situations, hardly dealt with by the law, and we want to remove them, to find some perfectly legal solutions and, let me put it like that, quite normal ones both for the family and for the child,” also said Panait.
The Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament (PETI) on Tuesday, March 23, decided to put an end to the petition brought forward by Marco Graffini on behalf of the Amici dei Bambini Association, referring to Romania’s observing the international conventions on children’s rights.
The petitioner, who attended the PETI debate on Monday, criticized the Romanian adoption laws and said that they did not observe the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, signed in The Hague in 1993.
The Tuesday’s decision is a success for the three Romanian MEPs, who firmly declared against this petition. They are the Romanian eurodeputies Victor Bostinaru, S&D/Social Democratic Party, Elena Basescu, EPP/Democratic Liberal Party, and Adina Valean, ALDE/National Liberal Party, who, in their speeches, insisted on the fact that the Romanian legislation as well as the moratorium on adoptions did not violate and do not violate any international or European norms.
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