1. Please provide more details about the process of preparing the report, in particular with regard to the involvement of non-governmental organisations.

2. To what extent have school curricula been adjusted to allow for education about the Convention on the Rights of the Child?

3. Please indicate whether education about the principles and provisions of the Convention have been incorporated into the training programmes of professional groups working with or for children, such as social workers, teachers, personnel in care institutions, prisons staff and law enforcement personnel.

4. Please provide information on any national institutions created to promote the rights of the child and monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. To what extent and in what ways do these institutions, if they exist, cooperate with non-governmental organisations?

5. Please provide information on the measures taken to create and improve mechanisms for collecting statistical data and other necessary information about the status of children. To what extent is the collected data and information used as a basis for designing programmes for the rights of the child?

6. With regard to the provisions of article 4 of the Convention, please indicate the steps taken to allocate the "maximum extent of available resources" for the progressive realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. Please indicate what proportion of the federal, republican and local budgets are allocated to social priorities for children. Please indicate how the present budget allocations to social priorities compare with such allocations in earlier budgets. In addition, is there any further information the State party would like to submit in relation to the effects of the sanctions on the implementation of the rights of the child?

7. To what extent is international co-operation designed to enhance the implementation of the Convention? What proportion of international assistance is devoted to programmes which benefit children?

8. Please provide clarification as to the reasons for the reservation made by the State party to Article 9, paragraph 1 of the Convention.

9. Please provide information on the minimum age for medical counselling without parental consent, the end of compulsory education and sexual consent.

Non-discrimination

10. Please indicate the specific and concrete measures taken to combat discrimination against girls, rural children, disabled children and children belonging to religious or other minorities. What efforts are being made to collect disaggregated data for different groups of children on aspects relating to the implementation of the Convention?

11. In addition, what strategies have been developed to address the particular problems facing children belonging to minorities?

Best interests of the child

12. Please indicate in what ways the "best interests of the child" are taken into consideration in the legislation as well as in judicial, administrative or other proceedings.

Right to Life, Survival and Development

13. Please indicate the reasons for regional differences in the Infant Mortality Rate and the measures taken to address this matter.

Respect for the views of the child

14. In the light of article 12 of the Convention, please provide further information on the measures being taken or envisaged to encourage the child to express his/her views on matters affecting the child, including within the school situation.

16. What is the current situation as regards proposed new legislation relating to citizenship and nationality? Please provide further details of the text of the proposed new legislation, particularly as it relates to the granting of citizenship to children of mixed marriages.

17. How are children protected from violence and harmful influences in the media? What measures are in place for the classification of films and video recordings so as to provide an indication of the suitability of their contents being viewed by children of different ages? Please provide clarification as to the status of the code "Children and the Media" referred to in para. 84 of the report. Please provide further information on the production of television programmes designed for children, including those with a news or current affairs content (para. 71 of the report).

19. What particular steps are being taken to ensure the effective implementation of article 19 of the Convention? Can children lodge complaints concerning their neglect or abuse?

20. How are the best interests and the views of the child taken into account in decisions taken about the care of children of divorced parents? What specific measures are there to ensure the right of the child to be in contact with both father and mother in the case of separated parents?

21. With respect to the care of children, please describe the policy governing the choice between foster placement and institutionalization. What mechanisms exist to monitor the care of children in such situations?

22. Please give more information in relation to the actual procedures governing both national and inter-country adoption. What measures are in place to ensure that parents giving up their children for adoption are allowed sufficient opportunity to weigh up the consequences of and alternatives to adoption? At what age may a child influence a decision on adoption?

24. What steps are being taken to effectively ensure to children living in all parts of the country, including in Kosovo, their right to a satisfactory level of health care?

25. What proportion of the national, regional and local level budgets is reserved for education and of this what proportion is devoted to the provision of compulsory primary education?

26. What measures are being taken for the implementation of article 28 para. 2 of the Convention?

27. Please provide further information on the implementation of article 39 of the Convention, particularly with respect to the measures taken or envisaged for the development of a systematic approach to the provision of support for children who have undergone traumatic experiences.

28. What efforts are being made to ensure that all persons, particularly children, seeking refugee status are fully aware of their rights in these matters?

29. What steps are being taken to trace the parents or relatives of unaccompanied refugee children?

30. Please provide clarification as to the policy in place with regard to children and members of their families who carry Bosnian or Croatian passports and wish to enter the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for the purpose of family reunification.

31. What procedures are in place to handle any allegations of abuse against children, including children belonging to minorities, by personnel in the armed forces or the police.

32. With regard to the implementation of articles 37, 39 and 40 of the Convention which relate to the system of the administration of juvenile justice, please provide clarification as to the system of "institutional correction measures" which may be applied to children (para. 381 of the report) and to the length of time a child may be held in custody without having access to a lawyer and/or family members.