Please provide further information on the implementation of the Convention by the courts. Has the Convention been invoked before the courts or have the courts taken account of provisions of the Convention in their decisions?

Please indicate the present status of the draft framework law on minors, referred to, inter alia, in para.4 of the report.

Please provide information on the measures taken to develop mechanisms for the determination of appropriate indicators and to improve mechanisms for the collection of statistical data and other information on the status of children as bases for designing programmes to implement the Convention.

Please describe the national institution(s), if any, which have been created to promote the rights of the child and to monitor the implementation of children's rights.

Please describe the steps taken to ensure the effective coordination between administrative structures, at the municipal, provincial and regional levels as well as the national levels, involved in the implementation of the provisions of the Convention.

Please provide further information on the steps being taken to implement article 4 of the Convention with regard to the allocation "to the maximum extent of (...) available resources for the rights of the child". What guarantees exist to ensure that local authorities are also guided by this principle in their policy making and that children throughout the country are protected against the adverse effects of any reductions in budgetary allocations, especially to the social sector?

To what extent is international cooperation designed to foster the implementation of the Convention? What proportion of international aid is allocated to programmes for children?

Please indicate the measures adopted to make the principles and provisions of the Convention known among adults and children.

In what languages spoken by the larger refugee and immigration groups is the Convention available?

What measures have been taken to incorporate education about the Convention in training or re-training programmes for professionals working with or for children such as educators, government officials, social workers and health workers?

What concrete measures have been taken or are foreseen to make the report widely available to the public at large in the light of article 44, para. 6 of the Convention?

Please provide further information on the steps taken to prevent and eliminate discriminatory attitudes or prejudices and to ensure effective protection against discrimination, particularly for the girl child, disabled children, children born out of wedlock and children belonging to minorities, including Gypsy children.

In view of the information contained in para. 14 of the report, please provide further details of the measures taken and machinery created to ensure that the best interests of the child are protected in all actions concerning children.

Please provide further information on how the views of the child are taken into account in practice in cases of the separation of a child's parents.

Please provide further information on the possibilities which exist for children to obtain medical counselling without parental consent?

Please provide information on the implementation of article 15 of the Convention.

In view of the information contained in paras. 84 and 85 of the report, please indicate the measures being taken or considered to solve the problem of organizing religious instruction schedules in schools or providing for replacement subjects for students who choose not to have religious instruction.

Please provide information on how the balance between respect for the child's right to privacy and the duty of parents to take responsibility for their children is achieved.

Please provide further information on the measures taken to prevent the ill-treatment of children. In addition, are there complaints procedures which can be used by children themselves in the case of their abuse or ill-treatment? In this connection, please indicate whether a "child abuse hot-line" exists and, if the answer is yes, whether its use is widespread throughout the country.

With respect to the implementation of article 25 of the Convention, what systems and procedures exist for the regular monitoring of the treatment of children placed in institutions? What steps are being taken to ensure that staff working in such institutions are sufficiently trained and are informed about the Convention?

In view of the information contained in paras. 115 and 116 of the report, please indicate the measures being taken to ensure that the administrative and judicial bodies involved with procedures for adoption and foster placement or similar alternative care arrangements are working in a coordinated manner to ensure the protection of the rights of the child.

Is the Government considering the possibility of ratifying the 1993 Hague Convention on the protection of children and cooperation in respect of intercountry adoption?

With reference to articles 9 and 10 of the Convention, please provide information on the outcome of cases concerning the right of the child to maintain personal relations and direct contact with both parents, especially in those cases where his/her parents reside in different States.

Please provide further information on the measures in place and the criteria which exist to ensure that the identification of families and children in need as well as the provision of social and welfare services, including with regard to the availability of day care centres for pre-school children and public family health centres, services for substance abuse, health care education, prevention of childhood accidents and family support programmes, do not vary from region to region.

Please provide information on any difficulties encountered and progress achieved in implementing the national plan which has been developed to encourage school attendance and to combat the phenomenon of school drop-outs. (Para. 169 of the report).

In view of the recent adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 49/184 proclaiming the United Nations Decade of Human Rights Education, has the Government considered the possibility of using this opportunity to incorporate education about the Convention into school curricula?

Do mechanisms exist at the community level for the participation of children in local decision-making, including with respect to the planning and construction of leisure and play facilities?

Please provide information on the implementation of articles 22, 36, 38 and 39 of the Convention.

Has an evaluation been undertaken regarding the functioning of the system of guardianship for unaccompanied refugee minors? If so, please provide details of that experience and any lessons learned.

Does the government plan to adjust or modify the application procedures vis-à-vis asylum-seeking children, including with a view to guaranteeing the right of a child to express his/her views and to ensuring a reassuring atmosphere for the child in such situations?

Please provide brief details, including of any evaluation undertaken, as to the effectiveness of the monitoring and legal proceedings established to combat "clandestine work" by minors and violations of their school obligations (see para. 198 of the report).

With reference to paras. 97 and 98 of the report, please provide information on the implementation in practice of Act No. 216 of 1991, especially with regard to combating the use of minors in criminal activities.

Please provide information on the programmes in place to improve the situation of Gypsy children, including with respect to the development of camp sites for non-settled Gypsy children.

Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency

In light of the information contained in para. 98 of the report, please provide further details of the implementation in practice of Act No. 216/91 and the number of children benefiting from the activities of the "fund for the development of social investment".

para. 115 - adoption

para. 97 use of minors in criminal activities