Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Civil Protection Orders

 

Current mandate

The Permanent Bureau is currently tasked, in accordance with the mandate of the 2017 meeting of the Council on General Affairs and Policy (Conclusion and Recommendation No 15), to continue exploratory work in this topic:

"The Council welcomed the oral update provided by the Permanent Bureau and noted that the topic will be discussed during the upcoming Special Commission on the 1980 Child Abduction and 1996 Child Protection Conventions. The Council directed a short note to allow for a discussion of the future of this work item at its 2018 meeting."

Consultation of Members by 30 September 2014

June 2014 Circular to National and Contact Organs

The Draft Coutry Profile is available to download here for Members to complete with information on their national law and procedures. Members are also invited to submit comments on the Draft Country Profile itself.

Members which have previously submitted a response to the Questionnaire on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Civil Protection Orders (Prel. Doc. No 4 A of November 2012) are invited to use the information collected for that Questionnaire to assist in the completion of the Draft Country Profile, which builds upon the information previously collected.

Individual Member responses to the Draft Country Profile

Consultation of NGOs by 30 September 2014

  • Questionnaire of June 2014 for non-governmental organisations and other experts

12-13 February 2014 Experts' Group Meeting

Key documents


Individual responses to the 2012 Questionnaire on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Civil Protection Orders
(Prel. Doc. No 4 A of November 2012)

 


The Council of Europe Secretariat (Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Gender Equality and Violence against Women Division) submitted information to the Permanent Bureau in relation to a potential new global instrument on the recognition and enforcement of foreign civil protection orders, responding to an informal survey principally of non-governmental organisations and institutes. It should be noted that all information submitted was based on the expertise of the Council of Europe Secretariat, and does not represent the views of the Member States of the Council of Europe. (A copy of a short questionnaire distributed to non-governmental actors is available on the website of the Hague Conference at < www.hcch.net > under "Work in Progress" then "General Affairs" and "Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Civil Protection Orders: Questionnaire for Non-Governmental Organisations, Info. Doc. No 6".)


Individual Member responses to the Draft Country Profile
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National and foreign protection orders: legislation, recognition and enforcement and other resources
(Prel. Doc. No 4B of June 2014 (revised))

 


Informal Non-Governmental Organisation and Academic Feedback

Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Civil Protection Orders:
Questionnaire for Non-Governmental Organisations

 

In December 2012, the Permanent Bureau distributed a short questionnaire to international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other institutes principally working in the area of family and domestic violence (and / or private international law), for informal consultations to gain further information on national civil protection order legislation, and to seek any preliminary views as to the need and desirability of a new international instrument in this area. A copy of a short questionnaire distributed principally to non-governmental actors is available on the website of the Hague Conference www.hcch.net under "Projects" then "Protection Orders Project".

Jurisdiction: Name of NGO / institute: Website:
Albania Gender Alliance for Development Center (GADC)
Response to Questionnaire
www.gadc.org.al
  Forum in Action
Response to Questionnaire
 
Armenia Women's Rights Center NGO
Response to Questionnaire
Annexes: Civil Code | Civil Procedure Code
www.wrcorg.am/en
Austria Domestic Violence Intervention Centre Vienna - WAVE Focal Point for Austria
Response to Questionnaire
Annex: Protection Orders for the protection of victims of violence against women and domestic violence and support service
www.interventionsstelle-wien.at
www.wave-network.org
Germany Berliner Initiative gegen Gewalt an Frauen e.V. (BIG e.V.)
Response to Questionnaire
www.big-koordinierung.de
Ireland Women's Aid
Response to Questionnaire
Annex: Women's Aid Recommendations
www.womensaid.ie
Kosovo Women Wellness Center Safe House
Response to Questionnaire
www.qmgks.org
Luxembourg Femmes en détresse a.s.b.l.
Response to Questionnaire
www.fed.lu
Mexico Alternativas Pacificas A.C.
Response to Questionnaire
www.alternativaspacificas.org
  Instituto Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma (UNAM)
Response # 1 to Questionnaire | Response # 2 to Questionnaire
www.juridicas.unam.mx
Portugal Associação de Mulheres Contra a Violência (Association of Women Against Violence)
Response to Questionnaire | Annex
www.amcvorg.pt
www.amcv.org.pt/amcv_files/pdfs/outros/AboutAmcv.pdf
Serbia Autonomous Women's Centre (AWC)
Response to Questionnaire
www.womenngo.org.rs
United Kingdom (Scotland) Scottish Women's Aid
Response to Questionnaire
www.scottishwomensaid.org.uk
United States of America Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center (AODVC)
Response to Questionnaire
http://www.866uswoment.org
Uruguay Uruguayan Institute for Private International Law
Response to Questionnaire | Annex
 

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