International Conference Sloviakia

SLOVAKIA PRESS RELEASE

On 12 and 13 November 2019, an international conference was held in Bratislava on the issues of international child abduction and the search for the origins of the adopted. The conference was organized by the Center for the International Legal Protection of Minors and Young People(CIPC), Central Authority of the Slovak Republic on international adoptions. For the CAI, Vice-President Dr. Laura Laera participated as a speaker, together with the representatives of Central Authorities of other European States, including Austria, Malta and the Czech Republic, experts from the Hague Conference and the European Commission , university teachers and magistrates. The meeting was attended by representatives from other Central Authorities, including Belgium, the Principality of Andorra and the United States of America, representatives from authorized Italian entities, SRAI who presented an interesting series of video testimonials and ASAs, as well as from other States. Europeans, service operators and university students.

During the conference, the meeting took place between the Vice-President of the CAI and the Director of the CIPC, Dr. Andrea Cisarova, in an atmosphere of lively cordiality. The meeting revealed that the CIPC, which signed a new bilateral agreement with the CAI in May 2019 as it did with 9 other European countries (See CICP web page: https://www.cipc.gov.sk/ osvojenia / # medzistatne-osvojenie), is ready to start again with the adoption procedures with the Italian adoptive couples. However, taking into account the drastic drop in Slovak minors adopted in other countries in 2018 compared to previous years, it should be noted that the numbers will still be very limited. Compared to the data, in 2018 in Slovakia there were 1,492 adoptive couples included in the national adoption circuit and 322 minors, while 7 adoption procedures were concluded in the international adoption circuit for a total of 10 minors, with three states (Malta, The Netherlands and the Republic of San Marino).

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