Finding the right balance between promoting children’s right to participate in procedures that affect their lives and protecting them from harm remains a challenge in the field of justice. Member States address this in various ways, including by setting minimum age requirements for certain...

The lives of children are affected by migration procedures which determine their status and whether they are treated as a minor or an adult, and therefore not entitled to special child protection measures. The methods used to determine the age of an applicant may include 'invasive' medical tests...

Europe’s migration and security challenges have prompted the European Union (EU) to develop and enhance multiple large-scale information technology systems (IT systems). Policy and legal developments in this area are evolving rapidly. The European Commission has proposed amending the legal...

Equal recognition of persons before the law is a long-established human rights principle. Nevertheless, legal frameworks in many EU Member States allow for the legal capacity of persons with intellectual disabilities and persons with mental health problems to be restricted or removed under...

This report reveals a problem of understaffing and lack of adequate financial resources for several Data Protection Authorities. At the operative level, a major problem is represented by the limited powers of several DPAs. In certain Member States, they are not endowed with full powers to...