The PB recalls Conclusion & Decision (C&D) No 23 of CGAP 2024 regarding the finalisation of the Country Profile under
the 1996 Protection of Children Convention, which reads as follows:
“CGAP mandated the establishment of a [Working Group] to complete the 1996 Country Profile, for the approval of CGAP, as a matter of high priority. If finalised well in advance of CGAP 2025, the 1996 Country
Profile could be approved through a written procedure. In the absence of any objection within one month after the circulation of the document to Members, the Country Profile will be taken to be approved. In the case of one or more objections, the PB will immediately
notify Members of any objection and the document will be submitted to CGAP 2025.”
The PB wishes to inform Members, as well as the Central Authorities designated under the 1996 Child Protection Convention, that the WG established for this purpose has produced a first revised version of the draft Country Profile
which is now available in English and French on the HCCH website under
“Child Protection” then “Special Commission Meetings” then “Eighth Special Commission meeting (October 2023)”:
The Spanish version of Prel. Doc. No 9 will be made available in due course.
Members are invited to provide comments on the first revised version of the draft Country Profile. Members are, in particular, invited to indicate whether question 21.2 would be difficult to respond to and to also indicate their
preference for question 21.2 or 21.3. Comments should be submitted in a separate document by e-mail to
[email protected] no later than Friday 13 September 2024 at 5.00 p.m. (CEST).
Subject to the number and nature of comments received, the WG may meet again on
Wednesday 2 and Wednesday 23 October 2024 (from 1.00 to 5.00 p.m. (CEST)). Meeting dates will be confirmed by Tuesday 17 September 2024.
The PB wishes to thank the members of the WG for their work on the Country Profile as well as the Members and Central Authorities under the 1996 Child Protection Convention for their continued cooperation.
THE HAGUE, 9 July 2024
To the National and Contact Organs of the Members
To the Central Authorities designated under the 1996 Child Protection Convention
To the members of the WG on the 1996 Convention Country Profile
Copy for information to the participants in the October 2023 SC on the 1980 Child Abduction and 1996 Child Protection Conventions
Copy for information to the Diplomatic Missions of the Members