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The Role of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs in International Cases of Child Abduction

This paper examines how the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs has clarified its competence in cases involving a wrongful removal or retention of a child. The Directorate for Consular Affairs of the MFEA and a network of diplomatic missions and consular offices overseas deal with nine new cases of child abduction for the period between 2013-2017. The MFEA works in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and with the Foreign Service Act. However, such regulations which would define the MFEA’s handling in child abduction cases have not been issued in Croatia yet. On the basis of research and a comparison of child abduction cases in Croatia and in some EU Member States, the authors suggest that Croatian legislature de lege ferenda takes into account provisions of a legal system of some EU countries when amending the Foreign Service Act or enacting the Consular Service Act.

Brussels IIbis Regulation ; child abduction ; Child Abduction Convention ; Foreign Service Act ; Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs ; Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

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