Conference on the international protection of vulnerable adults
Jacques Barrot, Rachida Dati, Miglena Tacheva
© Chrystèle Lacène pour le ministère de la Justice
- On: 17.09.2008
- In: Centre de Congrès Lille Grand Palais
On the eve of France's ratification of The Hague Convention of January 2000, the French Presidency is holding a conference on the need to consider the cross-border protection of vulnerable adults.
On 17 September, the French Ministry of Justice is holding a conference in Lille on the international protection of vulnerable adults. This conference is to be staged on the eve of the filing by Rachida Dati, Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, of France's instruments of ratification of The Hague Convention dated 13 January 2000 on the international protection of adults.
The purpose of this conference is to encourage our European partners to conduct joint discussions on the advantages of this convention and, more generally, on the need to consider the cross-border requirements for the protection of adults.
The European Union provides the ideal framework for cooperation among States to find ways, in the international order, of simplifying the lives of their citizens whilst ensuring their protection.
The Hague Convention gives the international community a modern instrument drawn up in the light of work carried out in a number of States.
France's ratification of this convention will enable it to come into force. This ratification should be followed by a number of other States signing up to enlarge the scope of the convention in the European Union.
The conference will also be an opportunity to promote the work of the Council of Europe, which is currently discussing the resources available to adults with a view to organising their protection in the event of future disability.
It will also allow participants to consider how closer cooperation between the Member States of the European Union, based on The Hague Convention, might facilitate the protection of vulnerable adults in the climate of the free movement of citizens that characterises our common European area.
The French Presidency is firmly committed to the notion of keeping individual citizens at the core of European construction and hopes through this conference to open a new phase in the realisation of the area of justice, freedom and security.
- Updated: 23.12.2008
