Hague Protection of Minors Convention

The Hague protection of minors agreement, MSA, officially the Federal Republic: Agreement concerning the powers of authorities and the law applicable in respect of the protection of minors, October 5, 1961 is an international treaty on jurisdiction for protective measures with regard to minors and on applicable law. A total of 13 states include the agreement on at least partially, in addition to twelve European countries, including Turkey, it is in China's Macao Special Administrative Region continued as a former colony of Portugal.

In the 1960s, signed in succession France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal and Germany the written in French contract. While he was effective in some states even in the 1960s, took the ratification in Germany and Austria until the 1970s ( in Germany on 17 September 1971, see Gazette 1971 II 219 and 1150, in Austria 1975) and in Italy until 1995. during the 1980s, Spain joined, later, Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland joined. Your candidate had agreed to February 2009, not all Parties under Article 15 c Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, so that the agreement is not yet fully in force.

Today in particular, the rules of jurisdiction in the States of the European Union through the so-called Brussels IIa Regulation ( Regulation [ EC ] No 2201/ 2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and in matters matters of parental responsibility [ Abl. European Union L 338 of 23 December 2003 ] ) displaced.

The Hague Protection of Minors Agreements ( MSA) in the Federal Republic of Germany short on 1 January 2011 by the " Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Cooperation in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children", Hague Convention on Protection of Children ( CWT ), superseded. The Federal Republic has the CWT ratified on 17 September 2010.